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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• ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been meaning to look into PinePhone myself.

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  • Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As an owner of an old pine phone, I can confidently say avoid for now. Not remotely ready or reliable enough.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just want something to have decent Linux support. I want to run postmarketOS, mobian, or something of that ilk on my phone, and I want all the basic phone features to work properly:

      • battery - phone should sleep and wake properly so I can get a full day’s use out between charging
      • modem - calls, SMS, MMS, data, etc should all work consistently
      • wifi/bluetooth - should be reliable and something I don’t notice
      • audio - speaker and mic should be sufficiently good and reliable

      And so on. I don’t need any special app support, I just need the phone to be able to reliably do phone things.

      Here are issues I’ve heard about from the PinePhone (Pro):

      • battery - well short of a full day, though OG PinePhone is much closer than PinePhone Pro
      • calls - I think this is okay now?
      • SMS/MMS - the best solution I’ve seen is to hook up an MMS bridge to Matrix, upload everything there, then download; that’s ridiculous
      • wifi/bluetooth - I think it’s okay? Honestly, it’s not something I’ve bothered to check up on
      • audio - I’ve heard audio quality sucks, both on the mic and the speaker

      That doesn’t get into actual usability issues. I’m honestly pretty tolerant of a laggy interface, but I need those basic phone functions to work properly.

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• rpl6475@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can even get it pre-installed with /e/OS to minimise snooping by Google

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  • LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Better option is calyx like the others supported, so will be supported or ported later I assume . GOS for me but 2nd is calyx in my book

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  • WbrJr@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can, they partner with a mother company

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• andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like it a lot bit I need two physical SiM slots so it doesn’t work for me, unfortunately. But great idea and love the price drop

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• arc@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fairphone don’t sell replacement mainboards, presumably to stop people building phones from parts but they look very serviceable in other respects.

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• FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They say it’s supported until 2031.

  What will a 5G phone with at most 8GB RAM have to offer in 2031?

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  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    assuming it supports 5g calling and 5g lasts as long as 3g did it will still function for calls, MMS, SMS, and email at a minimum (assuming encryption doesn’t change too much)

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In what kind of bizarro world do we live that 8GB of RAM in a phone is not enough? Also 6G is currently expected to be available around 2030, so 5G will most likely still work in 2031.

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    • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re familiar with bloat?

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• Flukas88@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Out of curiosity… how is doing that in 2025?

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  • rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t noticed any slowdown yet

      ?? Confused with Windows?

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am happy with it.

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  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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• Nerrad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Went to buy one but they don’t sell to USA any more. THAT will tell off tRump.

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t want to pay now then £200 for a phone and i want a small one.

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  • excral@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then an ethically and sustainably built smart phone isn’t for you, because that won’t be possible at that price point. But that isn’t an issue as there is a sustainable option at that price point: buying second hand.

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