I want one. I just can't justify the expense while my old phone still works.
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Yeah I hear you. I waiting until my 6a had a cracked screen, battery needs charging multiple times a day, and the case is messed up as well.
I dont know if you're all 6'10" giants.... But modern phones (including ALL fairphones) DO NOT FIT in my pants pockets....
Make Small Phones Great Again!!!
I agree with what you are saying but you are totally getting downvoted for the make small phones great again part.
But my god my little hands need a little phone again. I would like to reach across single hand texting
Batteries must get smaller first. Two days of smart phone usage is a battery bank ma fren. Alternative is to use a lower tech option but hard to find a middle ground.
You need military type pants. I have no issues with phone sizes, I can fit four bottles of beer in my pants leaving the hands free to carry something when going down the stairs.
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Just got a fairphone 4. It feels so much more solid than my old pixel 6a. Its battery lasts for almost 2 days. Same performance that I can see. Spare parts for cheapish on the site. Anyways just wanted to share.
Running LineageOS on mine. By the way things have been going for the last couple of years, it's probably the first phone I'll be using for as long as my old Nokia brick, even though I don't like its gigantic size.
I do see a future problem in there being no aftermarket components available, but maybe that will change and official manufacturer spare parts are still better than no spare parts.
Is it a good daily driver for normies? Can you run banking apps, for example?
Fairphone with normal Android is just like any other android phone. The only difference for a normy would be the transparent back that you can pop open.
I read that as "can you run baking apps" and was very confused why you shouldn't be able to look at recipes π
As weird as it is, one of the better recipe books I've tried was a usermanual for a cheap ass bread machine. Just ignore the machine instructions and instead knead it by hand, rise for at least 4 hours, and bake it until some parts of the crust start to darken (about 25 minutes at 425F or 35 or more minutes at 350, or for sweets 290 for 50 minutes but every oven is a little different so aim low).
If you get it direct from the distributor then it just runs basic Android so there's no reason it shouldn't.
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Yeah, though I'm using LineageOS instead of /e/, my bank apps work.
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Camera is most important feature to me and it doesn't even come close to the pixel sadly
Personally I would just get a camera at that point. They look tremendously better than the pixel line.
I shoot professionally and my pixel is my sidearm. These raw files are incredible and not even iPhone comes close
Some of my best paid photos are from a phone haha
If you're wanting to max out your new phone you should purchase motioncam. Get raw video from your sensor like a cinema camera. Apple users could only dream of this
Seems like a good phone indeed. I would like a tablet from them
I will use my current smartphone until it dies but then i would love to try the fairphone gen6!
Soo jealous! Would love to gett one but I'm not from Europe
I got the us one. But yeah I hear you.
Mint/T-Mobile works well in my area so that's a plus.
Wait there's a fairphone for the US? I'm not from there either, but definetly more accesible than EU lol, I'm gonna check that out
they're sold by morena
+1
https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/
In the US they offer phones that you can get with mobile service piggybacked on T-Mobileβs network. Prices seem fair if not pretty decent for even their unlimited data plan.
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How is the camera? The biggest thing locking me into Samsung is that every cheaper phone I've tried even cheaper fucking Samsungs, the camera is just pure ass slow sluggish, crashing.
FP4 camera is nothing to write home about. FP5 and FP6 are better, but still mostly mediocre quality.
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I'm using a Ulefone armour 4 (I think), coming from a Samsung Note 10+ and I have found the camera to be a big downgrade. However, I have found that alternative camera apps can make a surprisingly large difference. The stock camera app was bad enough that it often didn't feel worth it to even try taking a photo. I'm currently using OpenCamera from fdroid, and performance is far better now (though the quality is still a downgrade from before).
It's annoying because I don't care about fancy features and high end cameras, I just want something that will allow me to capture spontaneous photos
How is the situation with the boot loader? And when will it be real Linux compatible?
If answers are βcan be unlockedβ and βSoonβ’οΈβ, I gotta get one
Uh.. yeah, kinda the point.
Bootloader is easily unlocked, and it runs ubuntu touch at least... Although I run with /e/os for practical reasons.
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