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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€“] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 76 points 4 days ago (18 children)

I am so happy, maybe they will have enough revenue to make even better products

[โ€“] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 11 points 4 days ago (17 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 20 points 4 days ago (13 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€“] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days 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 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

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