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The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by TheLugal@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that they alone can't give driver updates, which is why they choose a chip for FP5 which will get supported longer. (That doesn't explain regular software not getting updates)

I assume you looked elsewhere for Fairphone 1 parts?

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You mean FP2 parts? I could have gotten them only from the Fairphone community. But I spent some time waiting for an opportunity where we would have met anyways, and I found no battery replacement, because tjat was the first component in most FP2s to fail (apart from a Display problem which was early on though and fixed under warranty)

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well you convinced me to avoid them. I use my phone's for about a decade each.

[–] axo@feddit.de 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But tgats stupid, since no manufacturer has parts available for that long. And fairphone released an update for the FP2 after 8 years of being available. Thats crazy! I think it got out around the same time as the Samsung S3. Try finding a genuine battery for that thing.

And also the FP1 and FP2 were sold in really low quantities. The FP3 was the first proper product, which therefor has much better support and will have parts available for much longer

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a fair perspective, but that is also not what I consider "sustainable" as they themselves claim to be. I fail to see how that is stupid, stupid is calling ones company sustainable, when it's not ten years down the line.

Trust already broken.

[–] axo@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago

Well, android itself is only 15 years old. To put that into perspective.

But yes, I would also be hella mad if they stopped supporting the FP4 or FP5 after "only" 8 or 10 years.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Not proud of that but it is an honest report of my user experience, sadly.