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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m thinking of getting an HMD Skyline instead of this? Any reason not to? Pros and cons?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Pro: Fairphone try to support their phones for as long as possible, 8-10 years for the FP5

Con: their customer support is desperate for improvement

Pro: FP offer spare parts for a long time, and there's a active gray market of people trading parts around

Con: I'm no expert on cybersecurity, but the founder and head dev or GrapheneOS talked about how FP are apparently doing a poor job with their security patches. I invite anyone to ELI5 this and do a better job than me explaining it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Once my Galaxy S10 gives up on life which is hopefully not too soon I'll get a Fairphone too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am thinking of getting a Fairphone when the time comes to replace my phone. What are the options for operating systems? I currently have a good quality inexpensive Chinese made phone with Android. I would prefer to use an operating system that has nothing to do with Google or Apple

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

/e/ and LineageOS are the ones that come to mind with EOs being (I belive) officially supported.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I like it. And I'd like it more if they'd offer an incremental backup system that works over WiFi. That would be the mother of reparability. Just lost your phone? No problem, get a new one and get your backup with all stuff working right away (e.g. apps from government, banking, etc.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm going to keep using my Pixel 5 and old OnePlus 7 pro with Crdroid.

You know, sustainability. Use what you have, right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a FP5, and love it. Yes, of course I wish it had a headphone jack.

Dual sim for my two countries I use it for, plus no sim tool needed to change hardware sim is a nice little plus.

Replaceable battery is dank. It's small and light enough to toss in a small bag if I'm going somewhere and I honestly basically never think about my battery life now.

All the rest of the hardware is pretty good. Not amazing, you can get more for the money, but also it feels good to have some morality in it. And I don't want to break it bir the peace of mind that if I do it's an easy repair, fantastic.

I hated the Fairphone case though. Terrible POS. I got a random internet one and it's much better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Adding a headphone jack would make it a slam dunk

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm tempted to get one, but I'm also tempted to wait until a fairphone 6 is released...

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

If your current phone works, please wait. That's the spirit behind fairphone

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