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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 bluGill »

cameroncairns wrote: post #37
bluGill wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used Xperia phones for years. However I gave up as if it doesn't come from t-mobile it didn't support all the towers (tmobile uses some weird frequencies in the US) and I'd end up in dead zones all over. Great phones, but too much friction to keep using them.

I wish it was easier to parse/compare the supported cell frequencies list from phone/gsm arena. Especially for devices more targeted at non US markets you can end up missing a lot of useful frequencies. I guess part of the issue is how non standard the US cell networks tend to be (iirc our 5g is also a little weird compared to the rest of the world) It's one of the things I feel like iPhone does right supporting most…

I.really want a works anywhere in the world phone that supports them all. I.travel once in a while and I want my phone to work (and reasonable roaming in every country)

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by K7PJP »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #22
mikece wrote: post #12

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How many current phones have a headphone jack? When I upgraded from my Pixel 4a to the 6a (both running Graphene OS) I never noticed that the headphone jack was "missing" because I use a Bose bluetooth headset. And when I want to route the audio through my car speakers? Oh... I have a USB-C pigtail splitter which allows for power to be passed through another UBS-C port and connection to the car audio system through a…

I need a headphone jack. My car doesn't have an aux input (I have to use a cassette adapter), let alone Bluetooth. It's 20 years old, yes, but it's not that uncommon to have a car that old. More importantly, even if I didn't need one I would still want one. A headphone jack is a universal connection for audio, Bluetooth is not. And wired headphones are strictly superior to wireless headphones, as they don't need to b…

I'm in the same situation, but I just keep a USB-C to headphone adapter attached to the cassette adapter and I'm good to go.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by system2 »

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…

This is why people buy iPhone. Unless you drop it from a speeding car, it won't cause any issues for 4-5 years at least.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by kshahkshah »

adamjc wrote: post #97
acheron wrote: post #65

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What about a floppy drive and parallel port connector?

bluetooth headphones have a noticable delay for anyone who pays attention.

Isn't any delay measured and accounted for in syncing playback of videos? When was the last time you've used a great pair of bluetooth headphones

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by duskwuff »

kshahkshah wrote: post #104
adamjc wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bluetooth headphones have a noticable delay for anyone who pays attention.

Isn't any delay measured and accounted for in syncing playback of videos? When was the last time you've used a great pair of bluetooth headphones

> Isn't any delay measured and accounted for in syncing playback of videos?

It can be, but your operating system needs to support it.

Support for audio delay compensation is pretty good on macOS. No idea about other OSes, though.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by kelipso »

kshahkshah wrote: post #104
adamjc wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bluetooth headphones have a noticable delay for anyone who pays attention.

Isn't any delay measured and accounted for in syncing playback of videos? When was the last time you've used a great pair of bluetooth headphones

Ever played games with bluetooth headphones? Anyway, who wants radiation directly aimed into their brains.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by Symbiote »

calamari4065 wrote: post #86
binkHN wrote: post #85

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> If you use fast wired charging, which most phones do, you're causing significant wear to the battery. I don't know about other Android phones, but Google's Pixel line of phones will do a slow charge overnight and time the top off to be in line with your morning alarm. So, my thought is that effort is being made here to extend battery life by specifically not fast charging overnight.

That's a pretty good feature and would significantly decrease battery wear. I'm actually surprised it's implemented in the Pixel, it should be a core feature of Android

Sony phones have done this for years. I have a 6 year old phone, still on its original battery. It reliably lasts all day and night.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by codetrotter »

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…

Sorry to hear that :(

However, I do want to point out that when such unfortunate things happen, perhaps the remaining parts that still works could be helpful to other fairphone users?

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by bunabhucan »

system2 wrote: post #103
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…

This is why people buy iPhone. Unless you drop it from a speeding car, it won't cause any issues for 4-5 years at least.

Typing this on a galaxy s20 ...that fell off the roof of my car at about 40mph.

Re: Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

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Post by Ruthalas »

orangepurple wrote: post #7

Not for sale in the USA. I looked at their small whitelist of countries they ship to in the final step of checkout.

Only very recently did they start partnering with a company called Murena to sell phones in the US. Murena currently stocks the Faiphone 4.

Murena does have a note on their site[0] regarding sale of the FP5. They don't have it yet, but they may eventually.

[0]https://murena.com/america/murena-fairphone-5-availibility/

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