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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 5 days ago

I already own a FP3 and that's what I am going to use until it breaks.

That's fair. I can get behind that.

I might consider Graphene in the future, but having to buy a Google phone (even a used one) already pisses me off, compared to a FP (or similar).

You're not the only one. I loathed that I had to go back to Google to switch to Graphene, but life's a compromise most of the time.

eOS also tries to be a "noob-friendly" distribution, that you can buy phones with and you never have to mess with the phones, which means people who don't have the skills or don't want to mess with their phones might trade the risk with ease of operation, and it might be the right choice for them.

Graphene does that well too. I've been using it for a few weeks now and I never had to look up guides like I'm doing for Linux.