Fairphone is unique in the world of smartphones. It’s pretty much the only company trying to build a sustainable device that isn’t glued together and hostile to the repair community. Today, Fairphone is announcing a brand-new flagship: the Fairphone 4, which brings an updated design and better specs while still shipping with all the modularity you would expect.
With usb-c this works because it’s shallow and closed off. 3.5mm jacks have springy contacts that need a bit more room so you can’t really reach everything. Also many smd sockets don’t have sealed bodys so maybe they were also hard to source.
Hmm, when dust rendered a 3.5mm jack unusable for me, it was always that enough dust had been compressed at the bottom, so that the jack was too short for the plug to fit. Taking a needle to loosen up that dust and dragging it out, was always enough so far.
Obviously, I haven’t dusted up a huge number of 3.5mm jacks to really say that this always works, though.