Is fair phone (review) that? Its camera and battery are sub-par for the money, but it says that it makes up for it in many ways, like longevity and ability to swap out components that in other phones can mean almost getting a new one. It sounds kinda perfect for my use case but I’ve never owned one so can’t be positive. When my current phone dies, this is something I’ll heavily look into.
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MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t want a dumb phone. I want a circa 2014 smart phone that is not expected to replace my laptop and serve as a constant data stream for corporations. I want to be able to visit a website on my phone and not have it try to get me to download an app, be ads on 70% of the screen, or just be unreadable formatting. Let me call, text, do a basic online search, play a stupid flash game, and take my money. Stop being greedy and trying to make everything I do monetizable
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months ago
klisurovi4@midwest.social 5 months ago
I have a fairphone 5 and it’s… ok. It’s definitely overpriced for its specs but you can’t really expect a cheap phone while cutting down on slave labour at the same time. It’s also quite buggy. Not unusably so, but coming from a Galaxy S9 (yes, Samsung bad, that’s why I switched), it’s a bit jarring. For example, sometimes I’ll pull it out of my pocket and it’s off for some reason. I turn it back on and there doesn’t appear to be a cause for it, and it works fine. A few times I’ve had the battery drain insanely fast for some reason, despite the phone reporting no apps having high battery usage. Some apps also have issues on occasion, Discord for example tends to get stuck in the gallery view after you send a picture and it doesn’t allow you to open the keyboard again. It’s also missing some minor, but neat things, like the ability to snooze alarms by turning over the phone (there is probably an alarm app that does that, but I haven’t looked) and the fingerprint reader is nowhere near as reliable as the one in my Galaxy S9.
The majority of the time it works just fine and if you don’t expect the polish you’ll get out of a Samsung flagship, you’ll probably be ok with it. But you are very much paying a premium for the sustainability and repairability, not the overall experience. I don’t regret supporting Fairphone, vote with your wallet and all that, but I definitely recognise the device itself has issues and when looked at purely on specs and software quality, it isn’t really worth the money.
mynachmadarch@kbin.social 5 months ago
I can't comment on fairphone, but the Discord thing is likely not your phone, it's Discord or something. The same happens to me randomly on a Pixel 6a.
klisurovi4@midwest.social 5 months ago
Never happened on my old phone. Might be some issue with the stock Android then, idk
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Personally I’m very happy with my fairphone. Knowing I can replace parts when they break is nice. And idgaf about camera as long as it can take a halfway decent picture, so a phone that skimps on camera for less cost is a win in my book
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I want to be able to pull up an 80% version of a website on my phone, and have a button to open the full website on my computer for when I get home.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
If you use Firefox, you can transfer tabs between your phone and computer.
Resol@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m starting to miss my iPhone 4
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As long as you didn’t hold it wrong.
Resol@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I got it long after the Antennagate problem got fixed. I believe iOS 4.3 was out when I first bought it.
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I loved my LG v10 and galaxy s5. Those phones just worked and worked great for a long time.
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
There is something about the Palm Pre or Jolla Sailfish OS that was so endearing back then. Devices that support it just don’t exist.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Sad thing is, WebOS still exists.
But it’s running on LG televisions
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And putting ads all over the screen…