When considering new customers or those who, for example, have irreparably damaged their Fairphone, it’s important to recognize that selling a three-year-old device as new may not be appealing to them. Additionally, many people today rely on their phones as their primary computer and therefore require the performance necessary to handle a variety of tasks.
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HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
As an FP4 owner, what is the point of getting an upgrade? I don’t use my smartphone beyond calls and texts and a Lemmy app and listening to music.
What can you do on a new phone that you can’t do on an old phone?
Honest question, I’m not being facetious.
dmalteseknight@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s great for people running at the end of their phone’s lifespan such as those with pixel 5as and iphone 8s.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I am not dissing the phone, if I was in the market it would be a no-brainer, I am just interested in what a new phone could give me and when should I plan to switch.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Perhaps at the end of software support, that’s how I do my upgrades.
slauraure@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Same. Unless it stops getting security updates or has been dropped to the bottom of the sea, I’m holding on to the phone I have.
01011@monero.town 3 weeks ago
I just replaced the battery on my pixel 7 and I’m asking myself the same. I use my phone for fewer tasks than you. Calls and messages only.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Nobody should feel a strong need to upgrade after only two generations. Same deal with most tech like GPUs and CPUs.
I use my phone a lot and my Pixel 7 is fine. The primary factors driving my last couple upgrades were battery degradation and software support. Neither should be a big problem with a Fairphone.
I’m also trying to decide whether to stick with the Pixel/GrapheneOS ecosystem or go for Fairphone.
How hard/expensive was it to replace your battery? I looked on iFixIt and it seemed a lot harder than my orevious phones.
01011@monero.town 2 weeks ago
I’m currently in a part of the world were labor is pretty cheap so it didn’t cost me much.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Android 16 is coming out with desktop mode soon. At that point I’ll have to pony up for a new one because my current device doesn’t support display port alt mode. And my laptop is on its last legs.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I think Fairphone would say that they want you to keep using the FP4 forever, replacing individual parts as they fail. Their goal is the reduce waste in the smartphone industry, that’s why they make it so easy to maintain your device. Maybe eventually the main processor on your FP4 will be too slow to keep up with even those light apps. At that point, you come back to Fairphone and buy whatever the latest one is.
And as Sunshine said, continually releasing new generations of phones keeps them enticing to the vast majority of smartphone consumers that don’t already use a Fairphone. I’m literally looking at this new one and considering if that will be my next smartphone when my Pixel 7’s battery starts to turn. Seems like a pretty good deal to me, tbh. Might finally rip me from Google’s grasp.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s true however android is not very well optimized for older hardware. It would be cool to see fairphone become large enough that they can order better deals with cpu manufacturers in bulk to have better chips while largely contributing to an efficient linux mobile distro.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
A good OS would be a killer feature, but hard to implement.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
i mean…they already have the versions with e/OS? Does that not fit that bill?