Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left the consumer hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.

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  • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It depends on their response I think. They can own up to the problem, make their products more resilient or theh can do nothing in that case the repair washing is obvious.

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    • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      IDK if I’m understanding their response correctly in the article but it really sounds like the people affected are left to pay for the repair themselves

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    are there any options left in that list?

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  some users reported that devices with malfunctioning or disconnected fingerprint sensors became stuck on the boot animation and could not complete startup.

  Some context. Also this happened last year.

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  • cenzorrll@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is the event that happened last year.

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• flandish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  when will we get a linux based phone that is not android?

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Cross your fingers for https://mecha.so/comet

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  • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nokia N900 from 2009. Question is when we’ll get a new one.

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    librem 5? pi phone?

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Considering the Pine Phone’s price, poor performance is an understandable trade-off.

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Provably never, as it’s the chicken-and-egg app availability problem that killed Nokia and Windows phone. Everything is developed for Android, at this point if you launch a new phone OS it’s just going to sit at 0.01% marketshare of weird nerds buying it until you go bankrupt because you can’t buy the hardware anymore.

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    • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Should be possible to make a compatibility layer. You can run android apps on PC now, according to constant banners on Play Store.

      The biggest issue is hardware support. Mobile hardware still uses custom drivers for everything, so you wouldn’t be able to ramp up a new OS on existing hardware. You’d need to invest in making both a phone and an OS, and that’s a big risk considering only a small amount of turbo nerds will care.

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    • Jordan117@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even if there was a Proton-like way to reliably emulate Android software, you’ve still got the device attestation problem that means most major banking and security apps won’t work. And hardly anyone is going to either want to give up those apps or have to carry around a separate dedicated phone just for them.

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    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The idea is that there is already a bunch of shit developed for Linux so you aren’t really starting from zero. But yeah, I agree with your overall assessment. No one is going to be making hardware for this.

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  • Encephalotrocity@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brax3

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  • Konstant@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fairphone has a linux based os option, /e/ OS

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    • Delascas@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      /e/ OS is not a Linux based OS. It is a fork of LineageOS, which is a fork of AOSP. I run /e/ on a FairPhone 3+.

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  • Vipsu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe Jolla phone? Dont know if its good enough for daily driving but seems like it has some potential.

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This happened last year. It isn’t new news.

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