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)
Cool, personally I hate anything in-ear though. Dreading the day my Samsung beans die.
Fuck in-ear. You don’t even want a Q tip in there. I’ve been babying my dermatologist related stuff for a year and I always feel amazing. No weird hearing issues ever and the fake tinnitus is gone. Be careful with in-ear.
They make over the ear cans that are just as fair and repairable if you’re interested in something that aligns better to your personal tastes but maintains the same mantra.
Nice I have been waiting for this exact product. Insane how almost no Buds have swappable batteries on the market.
Almost? Are there any other?
Only the Sony WF-1000XM3 have clips to take apart and standard swappable batteries afaik. It’s an old product though and sony makes each iteration less repairable. There are some which are glued in, but technically swappable, with risk though. There is also a model with magentic snapping batteries, which looks cool, can’t recall the brand. The weren’t available for purchase in my country.
Many samsung buds can be opened with screws. But batteries are not for sale.
Curious to see what IFixIt make of these.
I’m still incredibly sceptical of earbuds being anything other than e-waste, but that may just be me knowing I’ll lose one immediately if they aren’t tied together.
10/10 from ifixit
“Codec: SBC & AAC” lmao, no aptX, ldac or even LC3/Opus
aptX, ldac
these depends on the chipset they used.
or even LC3/Opus
There is still hope of an update in the future?:
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/the-new-fairbuds-nine-things-you-need-to-know/107173/7
I have a Fairphone 4 and the software update of the camera was huge. Before it was a letdown, now it’s fine and responsive. Not perfect, but I’m satisfied. What I mean is that I now trust Fairphone team to do their best to update their stuff in the future. They are not perfect, but support is there in the medium-long term.
Fuck yeah with the replaceable battery. I got some pricey Apple earbuds and the battery life collapsed after two or three years. Ridiculous, given the price.
The batteries of my Sony whateverXM3s (the true wireless ones) recently gave out, and I was positively surprised to find that the battery was a standard cell that was pretty easy to find. Prying the open was annoying, but doable.
You were lucky! Those were the most repairable earbuds… Until now 🙂
https://ifixit.com/News/35377/which-wireless-earbuds-are-the-least-evil
Huh, neat. Well, I’m still quite happy with them, actually, and hope they’ll continue to do their jobs for a long time. Bought them because the review were pretty good, and they where on sale for 80€ at a local retailer (was right after the XM4s dropped).
Those earbuds at 80€ would be a steal still now!
Yeah, I got lucky. Retailer wanted to get rid of them to make space for the next generation.
Great article, thanks!
my ear(1)s are currently falling apart, so these came out just in time.
apparently, they’re supposed to sound not bad™
This looks so awesome 🤩
Exactly what I wished for in a previous post, I didn’t think it was coming because they marketed it as a whole new category.
Nice, been using the first “gen” of them (dunno the name, FP in-Earphones i guess)for a long time with my FP3. Surley gonna try them when the old ones are broken beyond repair.
I’ve been using some earplugs sold along an old HTC smartphone. The ones who had a keyboard. Still perfect sound and condition.
This video with reparation instructions for fairphone earbuds is pure porn
If I have one complaint, it would be that I wish they’d have gone with the name “Fair” instead of “fairphone” when they branched out into other product lines. Drop the phone. It’s cleaner.
