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Fairphone has really gone off the deep end. 6 phone models in what? less than 12 years? That's what they call dedication to sustainability? Really? They used to say the most sustainable phone is your old phone, assuming you can continue to use it. Yet - my Fairphone 1, still in good working order hardware-wise, I had to "scrap" because no more SW updates. When my FP2 hardware (charging port) eventually failed, they no longer sold the relevant spare parts.

What good are exchangeable parts, if they are removed from the shop around the time that a well-treated phone might need them?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good, I only want to pay for the parts that don't send my data to Google and their partners.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So a "phone" without any ability to connect to mobile networks or to WiFi?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 2 days ago (12 children)

This looks pretty good. The main issue with Fairphone for me is the price. FP 5 is still about 2x as expensive as Pixel 8. I got my Pixel 8a on promotion for ~250 euros. FP 5 still costs over 500. I never paid more than 300 euros for a phone and I'm not planning to.

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[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Laser@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Think I'm getting it, my Redmi Note 8 is aging and I'm pretty sure the current batch of custom ROMs is basically the last apart from the fact that the kernel is no longer supported, and Xiaomi is closing the doors on custom ROMs more and more it seems. Yeah, the new FP isn't perfect but it seems good enough to pull the trigger, and while the Pixels seemed like a good alternative in some aspects, Google recently made it very clear where they see Android's future, and it's not more open.

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