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I have a Fairphone 4 and I’m very happy with it. Strong recommend.
Dangit Fairphone where were you 6 months ago when I was looking for a new phone.
Fairphone was literally my top choice before I bought my current smartphone, until I found out I couldn’t get it. So this is great, hopefully they still sell it whenever I update my phone (which won’t happen for a few years). Several other people have already commented something along these lines, but I’m just happy about it.
I support the idea, but I’m really skeptical. I bought the fairphone 2 when it came out and it just couldn’t keep up anymore after 2 years. My understanding was that there would be upgradable modules but the only thing I got was a little bit better camera and case.
It would be great if there wouldn’t be the need for more and more models but simply better modules to upgrade with the time.
Looks like my next phone is decided on.
CustomROMs fun and all but it is a bit of hussle.
This is pretty exciting. I wish it would have happened sooner though. It was at the top of my list when I was looking at phones last year, but it was still unavailable when I decided to go with the Pixel 7.
Hopefully United Staters get the FP4 and we get the FP5
Great news. The more sustainable options the better. Hopefully it will do well
I’m getting vibes of early OnePlus or Nexus devices and what they were aiming for. Pretty cool!
If the fairphone had been available I wouldn’t have gotten my teracube. I like my teracube and don’t intend to ditch it, but it is my impression that the fairphone is definitively better
Interested to buy it if it has an SD card and headphone Jack.
It has a microSD slot, no headphone jack though.
No headphone jack is a deal breaker honestly.
Eh it used to be for me, but genuinely Bluetooth is way more convenient and relatively low power too.
Yeah, headphone jack not optional.
dang
it looks like it doesn’t come with an expandable microsd slotNo it does. At least mine has one
Yeah same here. The micro SD slot is inside after you remove the battery.
Let me know when it can run GrapheneOS. Until then, who cares?
Lots of people care about having access to that kind of phone hardware option. It does have a degoogled AOSP ROM so it’s pretty fucking good even though it’s not GrapheneOS.
GrapheneOS is maintained by a certain team of people, unaffiliated with Fairphone, and they might develop a branch for the Fairphone if they feel like doing it but they probably won’t since they primarily focus on Pixel ROMs.
who cares?
All the people who buys fp.
Ok, you got me there. I just ment I don’t care.
Mine already runs CalyOS so there’s that.
I mean, good for you. I kinda need my sandboxed google play services, despite wishing I did not.
I am honestly not sure as to what the benefit of that is compared to the approach of CalyxOS with MicroG. It has worked for me perfectly, except for one app, BeReal for some reason gives a pop-up telling that Google Play Services is missing, even though I already have MicroG fully setup and working. Other apps have all worked fine, including Google Apps like YouTube and my banking app.
wooo /e/ the worst name for a great os. I use their Murena as my phone and I would love to have it on a fairphone
Has anyone compared this to a PinePhone?
I bought a PinePhone and it works great as a mini laptop to do light programming. But as a phone I don’t think I could trust it, and the interface seemed to need some work. It was cool (though awkward to control) running full desktop apps like VLC though.
Perhaps I should have tried a different OS though. I couldn’t tell how much of it was software vs hardware limitations.
This would be a middle ground between a PinePhone and a big standard Android phone
It’s still running Android, but it doesn’t have Google Play Services
The fairphone has google services preinstalled.
The one that’s going to be available in the US is the de-googled version.
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