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Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

carstenhag wrote: post #9
jandrese wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CPU speed isn't usually the thing that kills a phone, it's running out of memory. If they oversize (or allow upgrades of) the memory it could easily last that long.

I think only my first Android (Samsung s3) had this bottleneck. The others were slow due to CPU or by being severely limited by the battery.

My Samsung s5 that I currently use is also severely crippled by its low RAM. I have replaced the battery (no tools needed!) otherwise that would be pretty bad too, as it had really degraded.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

sgift wrote: post #24
TrueGeek wrote: post #16

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I'm surprised you're getting downvoted. The iPhone has been IP67 since iPhone 7 (so 7 years now). I figured more people appreciated this. I assume most Androids are the same. It's nice to be able to go kayaking and not worry about having to have a waterproof case. Mine once spent 10 hours in a back cycling jersey pocket where it rained the entire time and it was perfectly fine.

There's obviously a trade-off between able to open the case without having to glue it back together - which is kind of needed for good repairability - and having IP67. It don't think it's even possible tbh. If you have screws, you'll have gaps and since IP67 has to be completely dust proof (not only dust protected as IP5) and water proof for 30 minutes in 1m water it's kind of a silly ask for anything repairable.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 pulled it off. IP67 and you can take the back cover + battery out with your fingernail.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by onli »

redder23 wrote: post #63
maegul wrote: post #53

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So I’m completely out of the loop on the whole de-googling your Android phone thing. How workable is it today and how well would it work on a phone like this?

VERY ironically just do NOT buy a fucking Google phone to un-google it. I really really like the Grahpene OS project but its a damn shame that is does only support Pixels and not Fairphones or phones that are at least privacy supporting from the manufacturers end. I think "hardware security" of Google phones sounds nice on paper but you never know if these is some NSA chip or some other exploit build in that the Grap…

CalyxOS is a ROM with a similar focus and does support some more phones, including the FP4 and with the FP5 marked as upcoming, see the device list on https://calyxos.org/. It is the more reasonable choice to GrapheneOS anyway, given their recent issues with developer behavior.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by ben-schaaf »

izacus wrote: post #44
iandanforth wrote: post #11

I'd buy one if it had a headphone jack!

Would you reeeaaally? If you really wanted a phone like this, you'd just get the tiny USB-C to Jack adapter. How much of a chance that you'd find some other detail that's not ok if it had a jack?

Yes I would. I have a fairphone 3 and when it gets too old or damaged I'd like to buy something newer and a headphone jack is a deal breaker.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by throwaway81523 »

It sounds nuts that they reorganized the phone to increase the battery size from 3900mah to 4200mah. Also this phone is too expensive to be a practical device rather than a statement. Someone please just make a straightforward phone powered by replaceable 18650s dammit. If it runs AOSP out of the box then great.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by jLaForest »

sowbug wrote: post #8

Motivated by this article, and already thinking about handing down my current phone to a family member as a Christmas gift, I visited the Fairphone store ( https://shop.fairphone.com/ though likely available only on Amazon in the US) and read one review ( https://www.theverge.com/23895548/fairphone-5-review-price-f... ). Here's why I'm holding off. 1. No wireless charging. Switching to this phone would require a big…

You can buy wireless charging modules that plug into the USB port and are hidden between the case and phone

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by kwiens »

fancyfredbot wrote: post #80

I owned a fairphone 3. It was expensive but very easy to take apart and promised years of updates. Then it broke, after about 18 months. Fine, I thought, I'm glad I got a repairable phone. I'll just fix it, it'll be easy. I determined the problem was with the main logic board and found that a) a new one would cost much more than an entirely new, and more capable phone and b) it was out of stock. I just bought a new p…

Main board failures are hard, they'll kill just about any phone and it's pretty challenging to make the service part economically viable.

For what it's worth, I don't know of any systemic problems / higher than usual error rates with the Fairphone 3 main board. You got unlucky.

Consider giving them another shot sometime!

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