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How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

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Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

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Post by ctenb »

dmos62 wrote: post #79
mmastrac wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been running mine for ~4ish I think, on my third battery and might run out my fourth because it's feeling a _little_ sluggish at times. I am waiting for the next FP model where I can use a USB-C/dp external display and then I'm all over it.

What is happening to your batteries? I'm on something like year 6 on my Redmi and my battery is fine. Am I simply lucky?

I also never had battery issues with my fp4, except it sometimes starts draining really fast. Fix is too charge while phone is shutdown.

Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

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Post by esarbe »

ValdikSS wrote: post #39
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #17

I would love a Fairphone, but no headphone jack is a nonstarter for me. Still blows me away that a company saying they are focused on longevity would get rid of a universal audio interface that we've had for decades. In the article they claim it's to fit other features in, but frankly that's not a believable claim. Other manufacturers manage to get a headphone jack in just fine, without any noticeable downside.

The headphone jack is inside USB-C connector. You can use USB-C-to-3.5mm passive (!) cable to connect your 3.5mm headphones, or you can buy 3.5mm headphones with USB-C audio connection. There's no additional DAC involved, the analog audio is already on a USB-C pins.

How do you charge your phone while listening to music?

Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

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Post by izacus »

SahAssar wrote: post #56
ValdikSS wrote: post #33

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GrapheneOS is like a veteran and war zone expert: for them, not only the external environment is considered extremely hostile that you should leave your house only wearing an armor and with bodyguards, but also the internal environment is hostile: your bodyguards could be bribed and work against you, that's why you need to somehow be protected against that as well. Just as physical security, digital security most of…

> That's why Xbox, PlayStation, Switch all run on a custom silicon and not an ordinary chips! Not really. Xbox and PlayStation both run on pretty standard AMD Zen 2 chips. Somewhat customized, but standard enough that people by binned playstation 5 motherboards to use as computers with normal OS'es (lookup BC-250). The last gen with more customized chips was the PS3/Xbox360 era, when both went with a variant of Power…

I think you should listen to bringup of Linux on Playstation talk from CCC to understand that those platforms are much more than just "somewhat customized".

There are whole sections of peripheral chips missing and they behave quite a bit differently with how they bootstrap and where things are mapped in memory.

Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

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Post by DaSHacka »

MostlyStable wrote: post #80
eloisant wrote: post #58

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Why would you assume Google, Apple, and defense-oriented agencies like CISA wouldn't also have access to those same models, but using them to fix issues?

Its just raising the bar across the board, I don't see how only attackers would benefit.

Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

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Post by izacus »

Cider9986 wrote: post #46
ValdikSS wrote: post #33

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GrapheneOS is like a veteran and war zone expert: for them, not only the external environment is considered extremely hostile that you should leave your house only wearing an armor and with bodyguards, but also the internal environment is hostile: your bodyguards could be bribed and work against you, that's why you need to somehow be protected against that as well. Just as physical security, digital security most of…

>GrapheneOS is like a veteran and war zone expert: for them, not only the external environment is considered extremely hostile that you should leave your house only wearing an armor and with bodyguards, but also the internal environment is hostile: your bodyguards could be bribed and work against you, that's why you need to somehow be protected against that as well. Yeah, iPhoens are made that way as well. It's just…

> I think it's deceptive because people think they will get better privacy/security with a /e/ fairphone when it's actually much worse than an iPhone.

That's just blatantly not true though - even iPhones collect way more telemetry and Ad data than /e/ OSes.

Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

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Post by lentil_soup »

awelxtr wrote: post #51
Grombobulous wrote: post #31

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Ultimately, a lot of the “fairness” of the Fairphone is offered by “just buy a really popular manufacturer.” Everyone and their dog can repair an iPhone because it’s the most popular phone on the planet. Are those repairs accessible to the consumer at home with amateur skills? No, not really. However, newer iPhone models are significantly easier to repair and come along with lower repair costs direct from the manufac…

The new Sennheiser earbuds have replaceable batteries too so the fairbuds are no longer unique in that regard. I haven't read comparisons on sound quality though

According to FixIt Fairbuds are the best ones for repairability, not just battery: https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Fairphone_Fairbuds

Do you know how the Sennheiser's compare? I'm looking for some for using at the gym, but wanted something I can easily fix if needed.

The Fairbuds are also quite a bit cheaper

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