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Fairphone 6 downgraded to USB-C 2.0 (forum.fairphone.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by python@lemmy.world to c/fairphone@lemmy.ml

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Despite all the other compromises with the FF6, I still was ready to buy it until I noticed the USB-C 2.0. Which means no Android Desktop and significantly slower data transfer than the USB-C 3.0 in FF5. The linked Discussion thread from the Fairphone forum has some interesting additional points.

Is this a dealbreaker for you? (It is for me, I'm ordering a different phone today..)

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dont buy the cost excuse at all. A few traces and some more smd components do not add up to a significant cost saving.

SD cards are slow compared to modern smart phone storage, so thats really not really a solution either.

[–] the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I don't know much about designing a phone motherboard but it's my understanding that it's not price of the materials for the traces themselves that adds cost but actually integrating it with the design as a whole. Smartphone PCBs are crazy complex so if not including 3.0 speeds meant the board was easier to design for them and thus cheaper then that's fine for me. Ultimately they have made the phone cheaper at launch than last gen so they have managed to do that somehow.

I'm a photographer and I don't find SD card slow for photos and video storage/transfer at all. Obviously they aren't great for running applications off of but they work very well for transfering files.

Obviously, I can't seem to convince you that the other benefits fairphone bring outway the fact that they don't offer usb 3.0 speeds. It is a bummer and weird they had it on the last gen but I would give it up in a heart beat to be able to replace the battery, screen, usb-c port, etc. of my own device on my own with very little hassle. We can agree to disagree on this one