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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)
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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In what way does it look outdated?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Look at its specs. Processor and screen and so on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Also put the OS into perspective. The specs might not do for Android normally but might be just fine functionally, for Linux.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

People need to stop wanking over specs for a device that'll be used 99% of the time to send text messages and watch YouTube videos

What do you need on a phone that takes 8gb+ ram?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To connect it to a dock station and have a full desktop experience. That is my use case

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well Jolla phones run Sailfish OS which doesn't support this anyway so probably not the phone you should be buying (And the phone supporting Sailfish OS doesn't suggest at all that it'll be able to run a "regular" Linux distribution either)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That is the dream :') a phone running linux with desktop capabilities

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

That's sound in theory, but app developers don't really test on low end phones, so the apps tend to get more and more bloated as time goes by. As soon as you need something with a map, you're pretty much fucked. Looking at all the hiking maps that just get progressively worse without adding anything that I care for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I need my pocket sized spaceship computer for shitposting and occasionally checking my email