New product from Fairphone! This time around the true wireless buds follow the repairability principles of Fairphone.
- 3 year warranty
- Repairability. Replaceable parts:
- Earbud (Left and/or Right)
- Earbud Battery and Silicon Ring
- Earbud Tips
- Charging Case Outer Shell
- Charging Case Core
- Charging Case Battery
- IP54 certification
- active noise cancelling
- 11 mm titanium drivers
- 6 microphone array
- Capacitive Touch Controls
Great news, I just wish they were priced to sell millions instead of thousands…even considering their apparent decent quality and the fair salaries, that price (149€) is extortionate IMHO. For any TWS.
Same goes for the Fairbuds XL at 249€, at the end of the day they have the same 40mm drivers found on 30-40€ headphones…for 99€ they would sell so many!(Maybe this is where I’m mostly wrong unfortunately…people don’t care) Their design is pretty cool I find, on all their products.
Their smartphones are pricey but not so much all things considered…
Let us not forget they removed the headphone jack for no good reasoning other than making extra cash, environment and customers be damned.
Im glad theyre going from premium quality/prices tbh. I want the good companies to charge enough to run sustainable businesses that continue creating amazing products.
Look at Pine64 they make all these awesome open source computers, linux phones, etc but they charge so little that the specs are so bad people buy them and then leave them in a drawer and use a different device. Meanwhile the PlayDate is like $200 for a super simple gameboy like device but its premium quality and they make enough profit to put into good software and social experiences that make people want to use it.
It really depends on the quality.
Just as an example, Sony linkbuds S, which are “mid range” are priced similarly. And they are not repairable, not fair or respectful of workers…
These are made and sold at prices meant to be sustainable enough to pay workers fairly as one of fairphone’s stated missions is cleaning up the inhumanity of current production and material sourcing pipelines (an expensive and difficult task!. Most of the alternatives you’d be referring to at those lower prices are made with… Well let’s say “less fair labor” is putting it politely, especially when you source from Beijing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides)