Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I used a Jolla when it was new. It was pretty decent, and in fact had many innovations. Apple brought gestures to their OS several years after. It was one of the first implementations of a phone UI implement on Wayland. Might still be.

  Unfortunately, being a pioneer does not always help. Application developers didn’t get interested in it enough so it never really got any apps.

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• peetabix@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks ok but I dont like the subscription model for is updates. First 12 months is free, then you have to pay.

  But I guess they have to make their money somehow.

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• Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I looked at it, but it looks really outdated phone. Would be interesting if we live in a 2015, but not today.

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  • sykaster@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In what way does it look outdated?

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    • Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Look at its specs. Processor and screen and so on.

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      • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        People need to stop wanking over specs for a device that’ll be used 99% of the time to send text messages and watch YouTube videos

        What do you need on a phone that takes 8gb+ ram?

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      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Also put the OS into perspective. The specs might not do for Android normally but might be just fine functionally, for Linux.

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