Comment on Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 11 hours agoI 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 10 hours 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 10 hours ago
A good OS would be a killer feature, but hard to implement.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 6 hours ago
i mean…they already have the versions with e/OS? Does that not fit that bill?