echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I do sometimes feel like what we really want is something a little bit more like how Framework are doing things. Yes it’s easily repairable, but it’s also easily upgradable.
Upgradability isn’t really a design consideration for fairphone. So everyone is stuck with the kind of mediocre camera that they decided to put on it. It would be nice if the option was there to have something a bit better.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Actually, they do.
The Fairphone 3 was upgradable to the Fairphone 3+ by buying spare parts like the camera and installing them yourself.
The thing is that phones don’t really need upgrades.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 11 months ago
Huh??? I went through 4 phones during the lifespan of my last PC
Patches@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah and you didn’t really need any of them.
A smartphone from 9 years ago is still enough hardware to handle modern web browsing
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is not true because you need to upgrade your software and patch it to keep it secure, and old hardware does not like newer os versions. Your phone will run more slowly if the os is newer (i believe that’s planned obsolescence in action, though)
I appreciate that the hardware is still good enough functionally, but only if you want a less secure phone.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 11 months ago
Maybe if you don’t communicate with people regularly lmfao.
My current phone is about 3 years old and is getting slower with age, the camera is mid when compared to newer models, the under screen fingerprint sensor is ass, etc
My first phone? A slow mess, not running a modern operating system, overheated if you looked at it funny, camera looked like there was Vaseline on the lens, battery was shit, usb micro-b, etc
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish that was true but it feels like the opposite to me. Running videos in a browser seems to be worse than when I first started using it - I suspect due to them becoming more demanding
hh93@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The main upgrade they need is the processor because the companies making those are not supporting newer Android-Versions and at some point that becomes a security-issue.
Problem is that replacing the processor to a newer generation usually means the whole mainboard is obsolete, too and then is very quickly doesn’t become easy to upgrade anymore
just switching between different types of cameras, screens etc. wouldn’t be as big of a problem but that’s also not part of the main-problem either