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INFO!!! fairphone DOES SUPPORT CUSTOM ROMS!!!
i like the idea of a fairphone. i dun wana buy one tho - if it doesn hav the features i need/wan.
if fairphone had all dis stuff - it would hav a genuine moat, besides the sustainability stff-
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Sometimes I think about the fairphone and similar projects that face some sort of conflict with their user base, and I believe this is the great trouble with creating stuff for non consumerist people. For example, I love the concept of the fairphone, but will I buy one? Well, maybe in a few years when my current phone stops working and has no means to be fixed anymore. Mine is a low end device from 2020 that I repaired a broken screen earlier this year. It's a bit slow, but I mostly run foss apps with very little requirements, so I don't really care. Since the introduction of GSIs, android version obsolescence isn't much of a problem for the tech-savvy anymore. I siply don't have any plans of replacing it.
If I had to buy another one, I'd probably look for a phone exactly like the described in the posted image, and I also have those conflicts with the latest fairphone model. In fact, I'd probably buy the previous models. I don't care for a version number of manufacturing date, or any other number, I just care for the actual use value to me. But for a company to stay afloat in our economy, they must release stuff often, or will be labeled as "lacking innovation", and if they don't follow the direction of other brands, the frequent buyers might leave them. And this is exactly the problem of such products, because their target audience aren't the frequent buyers! If they try to make the frequent buyers happy, they will make the target audience unhappy, and vice versa.
As a matter of fact, When my phone eventually needs to be replaced, there's a good chance that I won't even need to buy another, because some friend or relative might have an unused one lying around that they just stopped using because it's "old", and I will gladly give a second life to it. It's hard to compete with a sea of disposed stuff in good conditions.
I completely disagree with you here, I don't see where you're coming from. Custom Roms are Posssible and you can buy it already degoogled so idk what you're talking about?! The switch is programmable? I Mike Accessoires I think they make it feel they give you cool choices, I want to fidget with them, it looks really nice to stim with. I'm nit sad about the headphone jack, I'm now used to bluetooth and it makes it cheaper to waterproff the phone.
Also it makes it stand out more as a phone which is not just eco-friendly but actually worth your money for features not many other/no other phone offers. Before it was hard to justify buying a worse phone, for more money. I also like how they apparently made a huge jump in power efficiency, before that was a huge dealbreaker for me.
Headphone jacks are awesome if you want to listen to music at high quality and don't want to put additional strain on the USB-C connector you're going to be using all the time for other purposes. Although if it was a modular add in part like framework that could be a cool compromise.
Okay lets get our girl Maria on the FairPhone design team :p
What I want from fairphone:
no custom roms??? they should rebrand to unfairphone
no, they allow for custom roms, sorri i didnt make it clear in the post
Accessory are optional Custom Roms are possible and already in the works (and /e/ already available.) that is more a community thing. Headphone jack is a feature that has a (i suspect) minority that tends to be real loud. I had my Fairphone 3 for almost 5 years and i am not sure if i ever used the headphone jack. Dual Sim is possible with E-Sim, plus SD card. Dual Sim with SD card takes a lot of space. Fairphone moments switch is already customizable to: DnD, flight mode, flashlight, dark-/ light mode, batery saving mode. Not sure what you mean by firm USB 3.0 is a sad decision which doesnt affect me personally but would have been great to have for DP alt mode. For moving files i use Quickshare cause it is much more convenient.
I know this is a shitty ask (and impossible atm), but like a 1" periscope camera (or any decent zoom snapper) for me pls :(.
That and actual Linux.
Honestly, I still like what they do have. Not having to deal with a service center and being able to easily replace my own battery or charging port when something goes tits up.
But it does really sting that there just isn’t any phone that comes close to approaching what I want.
Honestly I don’t even really care about having a flagship level SOC. I don’t need a processor that can run more sophisticated programs. So long as it loads web pages and plays media, at most runs a doc like program, I’m quite happy.
But given that my main use case is media, I’d really like to have something where I can listen to stuff, not using speakers, not having to worry about the charge on a Bluetooth device, and be able to have my phone charging at the same time. Like, there are those splitter dongles but I’ve found them to be just such a head ache to use, inconsistent in their function, and so easy to lose or break.
Also the fact that FP are kind of hard to get where I live is annoying, but, that’s hardly the fault of FP.