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600 euros? That's like 700 USD
Remind me again, wasn't like 80% of the American population on the verge of poverty and homelessness if a 500 USD emergency happened?
Who's benefiting from this?
Ethically sourced, fair wages to workers, etc. Makes you wonder what a factory worker in china makes to allow for cheaper phones.
But these are made in china...
Yes, sorry I fumbled the wording, I meant to say it makes me wonder what the other chinese factory workers make and under which conditions they work compared to the chinese workers that make fairphones. Maybe it's all propaganda and fairphone uses slave labour, but that would surprise me. Another thing I thought about is that tech is just more expensive in europe in general. It's common that we pay 20% more for the same phone or laptop in europe compared to the US.
Who in the US is buying midrange or flagship phones without a loan?
I did.
did it because I was tired of having every conversation I had popup as an ad. the "fair" part was simply a bonus.
I also refuse to use a pixel because I don't trust any firmware written by Google to not have some kind of backdoor in.
You can literally buy an excellent phone that will last you for 3-4 years for less that 400 USD, hell I'd say it's even better for the environment to buy used or refurbished phones and save even more money
Ooo they sell these in the US?
you can get them from resellers.
No
They are hardly even in the US market. Only via Murena with their e/OS/.