That would explain their “big plans” this year. Likely a FP6. I’m genuinely curious what it’s going to be like. But it’s still about 9 months away, assuming they plan on releasing it around August-September, just like the FP5.
I made a point higher up in this thread about dual front facing speakers. If that’s not happening, I won’t feel the itch to upgrade. The 5 is fiiiiineeeee.
I hope you’re right 
The price of an adapter is not even the point. It’s the fact that you have to use an adapter.
The best ones are wired.
The launch of a new device in 2025 was mentioned in the financial report for 2023 but that was under a different CEO. Also it wasn’t specified what kind of device that may be even though preparations for a new phone were mentioned as well.
I would definitely expect something to come up out of the rebranding but I have been wrong with my predictions before;-)
And need a DAC or amplifier anyway. Because the next wish after getting back the headphone jack will be a more powerful amplifier or more decent DAC in the phone. Just having a jack doesn’t mean that it fis everybody. So having it externally for all those who want to connect a very good headphone, and saving space and resources for the others, might not be the worst possibility.
Not to mention the headphones jacks holes are entrances for water, dust, debris and that wired headphones are prone to have breakable cables…
They all point in this direction. It’s hard now, to find a wireless headphone, not impossible but hard.
You can put a good DAC in a phone. Some phones already do.
Which you can solve by compartmentalising it. Best still, make the headphone jack a replaceable module, which is fully sealed.
Personally, though, I don’t even care if it is all that water resistant. A headphone jack is way more valuable to me than water resistance, and I would pick a phone that has a headphone jack and no water resistance over a phone that has no headphone jack and water resistance that can survive the depth of the Titanic.
Most of the good ones have replaceable cables
Hi, i think I understood your point.
But it feels like you’re minority in your device preferences.
I can imagine a phone company taking some risks, catering for a niche, creating two versions of a phone to choose from, but honestly and sorry if I am being blunt, getting a headphone jack which would sacrifice further not that high IP rating or any other parameters, seems pretty unlikely.
You know, I think the removable battery and back cover has a way bigger effect on their ability to make it water resistant than having a headphone jack would. And none of us are telling them to seal the battery in and make it non-replaceable.
Correct, that is your issue with it.
However, it is going to be wired anyway. A double USB-C makes more sense. That way, people can extend the device (with 3.5 mm, NVMe, basically anything with USB-C supported by Linux) while powering up the battery.
The 3.5 mm to USB-C from Fairphone contain a DAC. Is it any good? I can’t tell. I do own one, for a simple reason. My headphone can do Bluetooth and 3.5 mm but I am not allowed to use Bluetooth in certain environments. On top of that, once the battery is nearing EOL, I can still use 3.5 mm.
Ok, this is true, but I don’t know exactly how this is related to my words about a built in headphone jack.
A smaller screen size please: 6" or 6.1" max. - FP5 is pretty bulky.
Why not altering: every 2nd edition a smaller phone. And after that a larger one?
My experience with the Fairphone 4 was sort of bad. The bad was there where bugs that werent fixed for a long time like random reboots while travelling and light or temp sensor blacking out the screen i sunshine. And slow upgrades to leder android version. I assume that the Fairphone 5 was a better release. Once the bugs where fixed it’s fine, but the time it took the fix them wheren’t acceptable.
The software support are the Fairphone weakest point.
To be able it install a another OS is the most important thing, though fairphone would probably not achive GrapheneOS standards, CalyxOS are a must though.
Install others OS was always a must for fairphone, fairphone 6 will obviously support alternative ROM (or android OS distro if you prefer) and GNU/Linux distro (mobian, postmarketos, ubuntu touch, ecc.).
Tryng to be more privacy and security standard is important, so GrapheneOS standard vould be good (but maybe not fully gained on fairphone 6). For me, as always, the most important thing is a mailine kernel or ate least near to mainline and a FOSS bootloader eith support for custom signature, to make possible relock bootloader with custom rom.
Developing a devicetree upstream first is an important step.
Having fast and reliable updates for a long time and in regular intervals should be done first. Maybe it can come together with more secure hardware, but fixing the state of software development is the more important thing.
Replace the Baseband with an SDR. There are lots more frequencies that are of interest than just wifi, cellular and bluetooth. Replace the baseband and other firmware ridden components with something we can look into and trust and which is solely based on software.
My big hope for the Fairphone 6 is that is comes out the gate with support for non-android OS’s, e.g. postparketOS, etc. Would love to see that all hardware components on a linux OS will work out the gate.
An example of implemented features on fairphone 5 can be seen here: Fairphone 5 (fairphone-fp5) - postmarketOS Wiki
Also a sucker for a form factor like the Samsung S25 Ultra. Have always been a big screen and simple aesthetic fan, pen is not really necessary.
Not being stingy on the RAM and compute power is also why I love fairphone over other alternatives. It would be nice to use this phone more for everyday work, especially as AR and XR mature.
I could be great yes for postmarketOS.