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

Flukas88@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i got a 4 a few years back and it’s still works great, still gets security updates. it still has the default android on it, so i’ve been looking into alternatives but it seems complicated. then again, i managed to switch to linux on pc so maybe it’s not so bad

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• Srootus@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its fine, I haven’t noticed any slowdown yet, the main issue right now is that there was a screen problem that caused the OLED pixels to stay on when a black screen was present. They removed the AoD while they fix it, they’ve fixed it a few months back, but we still don’t have AoD.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I haven’t noticed any slowdown yet

    ?? Confused with Windows?

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    • Srootus@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No? People complain that mid to low range chips on android become unable to do everyday tasks overtime. My friend has a Samsung midranger that started out smooth, but now he complains about it and after handling it I see what he means, animations are choppy and app loading is slow, sadly making it no longer useable for him.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Android not liking slow devices anymore is something i know from my Kobo Leaf. But it getting slower? Is this limited to “Android” with Google Play Store devices?

        About the animations, there’s a setting in developer options to shorten or entirely disable them.

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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A firmware update from Fairphone bricked mine last year. Not impressed. Apparently it’s happened to a lot of people who went to an alternative OS (Lineage) then back to stock. I just woke up one day to a paperweight on my bedside table and the support was horrendous: it took over six weeks to get any response and after another month of back-and-forth with responses taking a couple of days at a time I ended up just claiming on insurance.

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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am happy with it.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably don’t want to play graphics heavy games on it. For everything else it’s pretty much like any other phone. Although of course it’s not quite as premium as flagship phones. Hardware wise, a Pixel 8 leaves it in the dust. But you can’t swap your battery or really anything on that one.

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