Hum… So Fairphone ?
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mesamunefire@piefed.social 11 months ago
I want a repairable phone. A phone where I can replace the battery
Dremor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 months ago
I really wanted to buy the Fairphone 5, but they don’t ship replacement parts to where I live which makes the entire concept pointless.
Dremor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Forward shipping exists.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 months ago
OK, so that’s a possibility, but when you start adding a ~$30 fee on top of the cost of the part and shipping from Fairphone you’re looking at about $100 per repair, which stops making sense pretty quickly. You’re better off spending a little more money on a good device that is dust- and moisture-sealed and taking care of it for a few years.
mac@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Unsure why you were downvoted. This is true
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Yea, but with the De Minimis rule overturned by the trump administration, importing it to the US is gonna have import fees.
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 11 months ago
HMD (Nokia) Skyline has a cool feature where you unscrew 1 screw and can change various things like battery. Unfortunately phone itself is not impressive especially from OS update standpoint (only 2 year support for major Android versions). I would love to see this idea being copied by other manufacturers.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 11 months ago
Unfortunately phone itself is not impressive especially from OS update standpoint
I swear to god manufacturers do this on purpose so that they can point to the low volume of sales and claim “See! People don’t really want these features” when in reality they’ve just slapped a couple good features onto a completely dog shit device.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Unfortunately phone itself is not impressive especially from OS update standpoint (only 2 year support for major Android versions).
Companies with a smaller market share tend to do that (with Fairphone being the exception).
Why spend resources to support devices for 5 years (or more) if you can keep selling newer phones and redirect your devs to work on the new phone. Its just capitalism 🤷♂️
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Fairphone
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
replace the battery
Besides the obvious Fairphone, theres a Samsung Galaxy XCover series, which acoording to many users on Reddit, the specs are not great for its price. The latest XCover 6 Pro is like $599 USD at release.
daw@feddit.org 11 months ago
I bought a refurbished Xcover 6p and so far it’s great. There’s also the perks of being intended for companies: very long software support and pogo pin charging accessoires.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Whoever owns the Nokia badge are selling phones designed specifically for repairability by end users; the only issue I have with them is they don’t really say much about how long they’re going to have software support, so expect it to last 4 to 6 years tops before replacing it becomes required anyway.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And screen. And buttons.
I also want something that’s supported more than 3 years so there’s a point to repairing it. Ideally, support should come from the community so it can be infinite as long as someone is willing to do the work.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Based on postmarketos.org/install/ the Nokia N900 can run the latest stable release of PostmarketOS.
Nokia N900 was a proper Linux-powered phone released in Nobember 2009.
So yeah, it’s been getting over 15 years of community support so far.
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s wrong with Fairphone then? Think I’m gonna buy FP 6 when it arrives
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I’ve also been looking at FP but I believe there are some issues of getting one outside of Europe.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
We only get FF 4 here (US), and through a reseller (Murena). And my understanding is that there are caveats in the bands it supports.
nerdyshades@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am in the US, and bought my FP5 through clove technologies in the UK. I’m on T-Mobile and get 5G and everything.
Spider89@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No Jack.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
They are pretty expensive for the hardware.
Unless I’m misremembering don’t they charge flagship prices but have midrange specs?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Unfortunately, that’s the cost you pay for a more “ethical” phone. Apple, Samsung, and all the mainstream phones are cheaper because they are subsidized by underpaid labor and sometimes even child labor.
(Not judging people who buy mainstream phones, just stating the reality.)
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
I crossed them off the list after they ditched the headphone jack and the CEO tried to blow smoke up everyone’s ass as to why. Then they introduced their new Bluetooth headphones.