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Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever. (www.androidcentral.com)
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Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever.

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[โ€“] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 9 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I wish they had a flagship. I would be able to accept compromises of course - thicker, more expensive... But still with top notch components.

There are two things stopping me:

The first one is that for the first time ever, I have a phone that I can just about take on a holiday, not take my DSLR, and not regret the decision. I reckon different people have different thresholds for this, but for me this bar sits at the recent crop of 1" camera sensors (maybe from 1-3 years ago, like Xiaomi 13U/14U, Vivo X100, etc).

The second one is that I tend to get flagships as a way to guarantee some longevity when doing some resource intensive tasks. I consider myself a power user, and while it's true that phones have plenty of horsepower these days, there are tasks that are quite demanding. For example, I use Ente which does local indexing on the phone for the ML image search (which isn't an "easy" task) and I do run small edge-type ML models (such as whisper, of re-train the transformer model in FUTO)... Now I know probably I could do those things on a 2025 mid-range processor, but I worry that by 2027 I will want to replace the phone because the things I want to do will have rendered the phone obsolete. A faster processor allows me to go for an extra year or two without suffering a painfully slow phone, so I'd also want this before making the switch.

[โ€“] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

FP doesn't need a flagship. There is only one line. That's the flagship. Don't like it? Don't buy it.

[โ€“] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Well yes, that's the reasoning I suppose. Some won't like it, and won't buy it.
So maybe it's wise to diversify. I don't know, I'm not an economist

[โ€“] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Right, and so anyone who wants an actual flagship phone should skip Fairphone because theyโ€™re not going to like it. Iโ€™m glad we agree.

[โ€“] Honytawk@feddit.nl 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Unless you are an elite mobile gamer, you don't need a flagship phone.

Even midrange will cover everyone's needs.

Flagships are nothing but marketing bullshit.

[โ€“] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Iโ€™ve had some midrange phones for a few days. Theyโ€™re fine until I take photo and show it on a display thatโ€™s larger than a phone screen.

[โ€“] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So you want one with a top-ish-of-the-line camera

[โ€“] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, I would prefer a midrange phone with a flagship camera over a flagship phone with a midrange camera.

[โ€“] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This, and in terms of repairability/sustainability, it's hard to make an "everything device" and do it well. Every time you think you got all user requirements covered, another user comes around the corner with a new set of hyper-specific requirements, and you're back at square one figuring out supply chains and design fundamentals. If your aim is to make something repairable and sustainable that is hard to make that way, it's much more feasible to just make two separate devices.

[โ€“] baguette@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

They also take in consideration whether the chips can be produced with fairly paid labour (to a certain level). I believe they have once stated that this was an important reason not to use some chips.

[โ€“] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 points 13 hours ago

Would be cool to be abke to upgrade the CPU by changing motherboard like with framework laptops, kinda unrealistiv tho

[โ€“] the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

I also wish they would do a flagship but idk if they are at a size to develop and support 2 new phones.

I do think if they put flagship processors their phones that they would be more likely to last a long time and better fit with their selling point. But on the flip side, it then would (probably) be so expensive most people just couldn't afford it. That being said, I'm happy with the FP6 so far. Feels like the snappiest phone I've ever owned even though I had an S20 FE previously which, on paper, has similar performance in benchmarks.

Hopefully one day they either release proper flagships or they make processors upgradable (probably even harder task tbh)

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

Got my used xiaomi 13T for that big sensor ( + Leica optics for what it's worth) don't know if it's a 1" (checked, its a 1/1.28") but it's enough for me. It would be hard to switch down a lot.

For the rest I don't really care.