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Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

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Re: Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

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post #83

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how do people copy edit this and not notice? If they wanted to pay trained copy editors, they wouldn't use A.I.

Where do copy editors train?

(to the sibling comment's point)

Professional Editor and Proofreading Course - https://careertraining.uwp.edu/training-programs/professiona...

> Professional editing is both an art and a discipline of diagnosing what a text needs and applying the right level of editorial intervention without flattening voice or intent. This skillset requires language mastery, analysis, and workflow efficiency that many aspiring editors lack. This editing and proofreading course closes that gap by treating editing as a structured profession with repeatable methods. You will discover editing style systems to help you perfect your skillset, while covering specialized domains, ethical considerations, tools and technology, as well as business operations that will help you succeed in your career as a professional editor.

> You will progress through 10 sequential modules and build real-world editor workflows, such as style sheets, author queries, consistency systems, and professional deliverables. You will also strengthen your editorial judgment across various genres and contexts. This online proofreading training program culminates in a capstone editing project that produces industry-standard artifacts, including a marked-up manuscript, editorial letter, style sheet, author queries, and reflective analysis, that will help you demonstrate your competence to prospective employers and clients.

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https://www.uww.edu/cls/academics/professional-writing-publi...

https://uww-public.courseleaf.com/undergraduate/letters-scie...

    PWP 330   COPYEDITING   3 Units
    Apply and further develop skills needed to work with authors and prepare a manuscript for publication. Focus is on the procedures of editing a manuscript, particularly editing for correctness and style, following the conventions of The Chicago Manual of Style.
    PREREQ: (PWP 230 AND PWP 310) OR INSTRUCTOR CONSENT

Re: Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

#142
post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using a dongle makes it impossible to charge the phone or connect it to any other device while using audio, which I do all the time. I also frequently interchange my wired earbuds between my phone and laptop, and don't want to be bothered with an extra loose dongle when I disconnect the earbuds. Sorry, this isn't a solved problem at all, apart from the solution of only buying phones that have audio jacks.

> dongle makes it impossible to charge the phone or connect it to any other device while using audio I feel like you missed the part where the parent comment said "[...] and there's even passthrough options for when you need to charge".

I have a passthrough dongle so I can charge my iPhone in the car and use an aux audio patch cable, and it's quite a large thing, certainly not unobtrusive but if you're charging maybe that doesn't really matter.

Something like https://www.belkin.com/p/3.5mm-audio-plus-usb-c-charge-adapt...

Re: Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

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post #108

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It's also extremely expensive. I'm more interested on seeing the next iteration of the PinePhone to fulfill the full Linux phone dream. In the meantime, commodity Android phones are still good enough.

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Re: Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

#144
post #51
post #9

USB 2.0 port is the only thing preventing me from purchasing one. A wild choice since I believe previous versions did not have this limitation.

I wonder what their reasoning behind the downgrade is. I own a FP4 and even this model features USB 3.0 with DisplayPort support.

IIRC costs and/or size. I agree, silly change. Going from the blue to green theme is another silly change, as is renaming scheme. I like many things this company does, but some decisions I question.

I also bet a smaller, less powerful smartphone with 3.5 mm would sell like hot cakes.

Re: Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

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A friend had the Fair Phone 4. It broke after a year. Hostile customer support, not worth her time. Idk. Stories of "good guy" indie companies who drop you as soon as you fell for their marketing keep piling up. It may be greed, short sightedness or an incompetent understanding of what it means to have customers, the results are the same. See Framework for another example of this.

My Prusa Core One 3D printer has had two upgrades available at reasonable prices since I purchased it. These upgrade kits are a bit more involved than swapping out a battery or camera but in the end, I will have the latest hardware. They are a great example of "good guys" continuing to hold up their end of the bargain. I hope they make some profit from the upgrade kits because this kind of relationship is worth rewarding.

Re: Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

#146
post #51
post #9

USB 2.0 port is the only thing preventing me from purchasing one. A wild choice since I believe previous versions did not have this limitation.

I wonder what their reasoning behind the downgrade is. I own a FP4 and even this model features USB 3.0 with DisplayPort support.

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Re: Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

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The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) comes with upgraded internal hardware that doesn’t compromise on our industry-leading repairability standards. The ‘plus’ isn't about adding features for a longer spec sheet; it's about intentional improvements that keep your device capable for longer. AI-like typing detected.

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Re: Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

#150

Can someone explain why in 2026 we have artificial limits like this? > expandable upto 2TB with microSD I get that 2TB ought to be enough for everybody, but why the heck shouldn't a 4TB microSD Just Work?

They just haven't tested anything larger.
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