Fairphone releases a Fairphone 5 with 6gb RAM and 128gb storage for €150 less
Fairphone releases a Fairphone 5 with 6gb RAM and 128gb storage for €150 less
https://www.fairphone.com/en/2024/09/04/how-much-ram-does-your-smartphone-need/
Couldn't find another decent link in that wasn't written in Dutch, but you'll find it at the bottom of the story.
Besides the storage and RAM, nothing else has changed.
Moreover the orginal 256/8 model got a 10% price cut and is now "only" 630 €
https://social.fairphone.community/@WeAreFairphone/113078784244931992
Would be nice to have the option of a Fairphone with flagship specs, but that's probably not going to happen until Qualcomm officially supports mainline Linux.
Fairphone is garbage.
Source: I'm typing this on one
edit: Sorry, didn't realize this was a FP community. I stand by my words though
Well, that might go a little far, but they need to step up their game when it comes to software: that's where they currently lacking. Too many bugs, bad optimization and unpolished designs. That's why mine is now my secondary device, which i probably want to use to try out custom ROMs. Hope they find a way to improve their software team (better and more developers, perhaps more colabs with Nixos, Graphene etc.)
Could you ellaborate?
I have an FP3 and I'm pretty happy with my device - previously owned a Galaxy S5 (the only lost features are the HRM and amoled display😓)
What I do find garbage though is what Google continues to do with Android...
It's a bad phone with tons of feel-good marketing. It'll end up on a landfill like any other phone.
The design and build quality of the device are bad. Sharp edges that feel so unfinished. The components, like the fingerprint sensor, are beyond unreliable. The camera is absolutely shit. Yeah, great, I can replace parts - against exactly the same garbage they put in at the factory.
Android Auto reliably is a frustrating experience in any car I tried. You have to manually adjust the USB mode, or wait minutes for the phone to connect, every single time you plug in. Sometimes I take a quick stop and the car/phone will absolutely refuse to cooperate with each other. Just connection errors. You reboot the phone, still the same shit. You stop the car, get out, lock it, unlock it, get back in, connect phone, change USB mode, connection error... You give up, the next day it just works again. I keep an old OnePlus in the car now. It has zero of these issues. You plug it in, 100% of the time AA comes up instantly. Fairphone is a waste of time in this regard.
They have no ARKit certification, which I haven't even experienced ever before. You don't need it until you need it.
I also heard the 3 was designed better, but I would never buy another Fairphone after owning the 4. It is the worst smartphone I have ever owned, and I actively hate it every single day. I bought it, because I wanted something that'll last me a long time, and break buying new devices all time. No smartphone I have ever owned created such a massive motivation to get a replacement.
Really? I thought they were the FrameWork of phones?
As I understand it: Framework is for people who don't want to sacrifice a great PC for repairability, which comes at a price. Fairphone is for people who want outdated hardware and stock Android in exchange for repairability, at pretty much the same price as a competitive product.
But: Compared to Framework, Fairphone is a pretty small company which tries to create as much of its products as possible in a sustainable manner. And for smartphones, that's just not super easy or sustainable as a business.
Fairphone doesn't really targer enthusiasts or the mass market, they are targeting a (sadly) small group of people who care enough about the environment to sacrifice convenience for it.
Framework uses high end SOCs. And doesn’t have to write as much code to make it all work ootb. Fairphone has to choose an SOC that will be supported by manufacturer for as long as possible since they’re on the hook for supporting the fairphone for so long. Only SOCs that are supported long term are designed for industrial/enterprise type use
Lost me when they dropped the jack. Against e waste but force me to buy dongles or bt headphones?
They can get bent.
dongles or bluetooth
Are you forgetting that usb-c headphones exost or is this on purpose for dramatic effect?
That's all I need to know. I'm out.
And here I am, using my chinese phone with 8gb of ram (+8 gb of virtual ram), 128gb of storage, a nice camera and a headphone jack that I bought for $150 three years ago. Works perfectly. I thought fairphone at least comes with root access out of the box, which it apparently doesn't.
I've always been confused as to why Fairphone, a company trying to make 'greener' phones and reduce e-waste, doesn't have headphone jacks on their devices..
It's for
making more profit by forcing their shitty earbuds on you"susaintability" and waterproofing. (Just ignore the dozens of phones with a headphone jack and IP68 certification)