Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

chaosharmonic wrote: post #132

Grombobulous wrote: post #69

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There are only 264 replies in that forum total, and not every reply is a unique individual. I would say that it’s easy to make an argument that this is quite an insignificant number of users even for a niche smartphone manufacturer. I can’t imagine that a lot of people actually dock their phone to use as a desktop. I would be surprised if the percent of smartphone users who do that eclipsed 0.5%. My understanding in…

> My understanding in the iPhone world is that the most common use case for fast USB-C connectivity tends to be people doing content creation work where they’re generating a lot of high fidelity camera footage rapidly and offloading it into external storage and other professional solutions. I mean, Apple also enforces a difference in what is an iPhone vs an iPad vs a Mac, at both the OS and the application levels, re…

Post by mschild » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:55 PM UTC

garlic_enjoyer wrote: post #91

nemomarx wrote: post #36

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It really irks me that it still can't get the contrastive clauses right. "it's not about adding (more features), it's about (more features, but with a different emphasis)" is so empty of meaning. how do people copy edit this and not notice?

I agree that it's marketing mumbo jumbo, but it's saying "we haven't added more features because more is better, we added them because they actually improve the longevity of the product." If anything, that sentence tells me that they are insecure of their features being perceived as bullshit.

Post by NetMageSCW » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 7:03 PM UTC

Noaidi wrote: post #19

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #2

No Verizon support. :(

Yeah, that’s a bummer. But I’m seriously thinking about switching to AT&T over this, but I would need to know if the frequencies are covered as good on AT&T. I can’t believe how few choices we have in cell phones in the United States. Where is all the innovation I keep hearing everyone talk about?

Post by Velocifyer » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 7:17 PM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #142

filoleg wrote: post #117

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> 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...

Post by handedness » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC

fsflover wrote: post #103

Gormo wrote: post #94

No standard audio jack? That's a dealbreaker for me, especially for something touting modularity, repairability, and user control.

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