Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable

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• Geodad@beehaw.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Can you lock the bootloader on Fairphone?

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  • 01011@monero.town ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    One of the reasons given as to why GrapheneOS is not available for the Fairphone is because the end user cannot lock the bootloader.

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• chloyster@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Approaching the point where I need a new phone. Curious what would be better. A fairphone 6 with calyx or /e/ os. Or a new pixel with graphene. I’ve heard graphene is the best but the fairphone is very tempting

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  • 01011@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    As far as smartphones go the pixels aren’t so bad if you ignore the endemic battery issues that have affected every pixel device from the 4a up.

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    • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yep, I have a pixel 6a and will never buy a Pixel again because of this battery clusterfuck

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• HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • 01011@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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  • dmalteseknight@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FP4 will be too slow to keep up with even those light apps

      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.

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s great for people running at the end of their phone’s lifespan such as those with pixel 5as and iphone 8s.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I'm glad there will be a us release :)

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Murena is really cool!

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    • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      this will likely be my next phone. I have a pixel 6a...

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How long until Fairphone and Framework merge?

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They do really go well together. It would be cool to see a partnership between them but still remain as separate companies.

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