How does the fairphone compare with other modern smartphones of comparable price: iPhone 13, Samsung Galaxy S22, Google Pixel 7?
Is it comparable, or is it a generation or two behind?
Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com
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#22Lol no headphone jack
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, you can order it directly from the Murena website https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairpho... Not sure if/when that will be available directly from the fairphone website though.
I get “not available in your country.” I’m in USA
https://murena.com/america/murena-fairphone-5-availibility/
Yep, looks like it's not available yet with no launch date announced.
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#24How does the fairphone compare with other modern smartphones of comparable price: iPhone 13, Samsung Galaxy S22, Google Pixel 7? Is it comparable, or is it a generation or two behind?
Fairphone promises height years of upgrades (apparently thanks to a contract with Qualcomm which sucks less), compared to the usual 2 or 3 years max in the Android land.
So it's cost per year is probably smaller than other devices if you manage to keep it this long. It being repairable probably helps.
(I don't have a Fairphone, but if I had to buy an (Android) smartphone, I would seriously consider the Fairphone)
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#25Question: did Fairphone do something about the build quality since v1/2? I used to have one (can't remember which) but the back cover broke after taking the protector off <10 times. I'd really like to buy one, but I'm not keen on using it for less than a month just because I'd like to have my phone clean.
Yes, it's gotten better.
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#26The only problem with my Fairphone 3 being 4 years old and counting, having survived dozens of drops without a scratch and receiving updates to Android 11 is that I have to hold restrain my consumerist desire to buy a newer gen Fairphone with flashier features. But I guess that's the point!
I found that my Fairphone 2, even after I considered it obsolete for my usage, was an easy trade-in at a price point that could only be explained by the person caring about keeping it around for a good while.
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#27Lol no headphone jack
They do sell a USB-C to headphone jack adapter. I got one, barely ever use it.
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#28How does the fairphone compare with other modern smartphones of comparable price: iPhone 13, Samsung Galaxy S22, Google Pixel 7? Is it comparable, or is it a generation or two behind?
It depends a lot of what you do with your phone tbh, I'm on a pixel 3a and still see no reasons to update, the fairphone 4 is better spec'd than that
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
/e/OS is focussed on not (or less) leaking data (-> privacy), especially to Google. Whereas I understand Grapheme OS wants to make it very difficult to hack the device (-> security). This leads to different compromises. I would say that /e/ is more normal end user friendly and GrapheneOS enables more security for those who need it, but less Android apps will work as normal.
>> GrapheneOS enables more security for those who need it, but less Android apps will work as normal. I can attest this is pretty accurate. A lot of the Android apps you find in the F-Droid or Aurora store can be installed, but won't work since most require you to have Google Play services enabled which Graphene sandboxes by default: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play A perfect example is when I was l…
Did you try YR [1] by MET Norway [2]?
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nrk.yr
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Meteorological_Insti...
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#30A bit of false advertising since it does not support 5G standalone, only the "fake" 5G NSA which is actually 4G. Also, LCD screen, really underwhelming. I was expecting much more for that price.
The successor, Fairphone 5, has OLED. The Fairphone 4 is about 2 years old now, and AFAIK it has real 5G.