absquatulate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is it me or did they get slightly more vague on their marketing materials, wrt the environmental impact ( at least compared to fp5 ) ?
Also the battery seems a bit harder to replace, as you now need a screwdriver. It does appear to be more flush, so it may be due to size constraints.
I don’t mind having a few screws to remove every few years when I need to replace my battery.
Although there is another thing, I’m not sure but I wonder if it has any impact. My FP3 has made a few very bad falls and nothing ever broke. I wonder if its “bad” integrity makes it very good at dissipating the fall’s energy.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 day ago
Screwdrivers are pretty entry-level tools though.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know I know, but it was really convenient to keep a spare battery and do a quick swap on the fp4.
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day ago
Then again it seems battery life is a lot better this time around, so this should ideally be less necessary.
newram@feddit.org 21 hours ago
True, that never crossed my mind. Yeah that is not possible then. Gotta stick with 5 then?
absquatulate@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Not sure. This phone seems better in some regards and worse in others, so I’d say wait for reviews.
As for me I probably won’t get it. Already have a fp4 I got in a sale to experiment with and see if I can completely degoogle and couldn’t ( not completely anyway ). Now it’s more or less a paperweight that I might revisit in the future, when my daily phone kicks the bucket. The dealbreaker is Android15 because that’s when they shoved gemini in, so any phone with Android14 and security updates will do fine. God I hope that linux phones finally get off the ground already
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 day ago
That’s a pretty fair point, though I assume a spare powerbank would solve the problem nearly as well (albeit slower and with a cable).