The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.
The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.
Ten swappable spare parts. Eight years of software updates. Five-year warranty. This is Fairphone's most sustainable phone yet.
I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.
But this is a wonderful initiative.
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Anyone tried this Linuxphone?
Looks ok but I dont like the subscription model for os updates. First 12 months is free, then you have to pay.
But I guess they have to make their money somehow.
I looked at it, but it looks really outdated phone. Would be interesting if we live in a 2015, but not today.
In what way does it look outdated?
Look at its specs. Processor and screen and so on.
People need to stop wanking over specs for a device that'll be used 99% of the time to send text messages and watch YouTube videos
What do you need on a phone that takes 8gb+ ram?
That's sound in theory, but app developers don't really test on low end phones, so the apps tend to get more and more bloated as time goes by. As soon as you need something with a map, you're pretty much fucked. Looking at all the hiking maps that just get progressively worse without adding anything that I care for.
I need my pocket sized spaceship computer for shitposting and occasionally checking my email
To connect it to a dock station and have a full desktop experience. That is my use case
Well Jolla phones run Sailfish OS which doesn't support this anyway so probably not the phone you should be buying (And the phone supporting Sailfish OS doesn't suggest at all that it'll be able to run a "regular" Linux distribution either)
That is the dream :') a phone running linux with desktop capabilities
Also put the OS into perspective. The specs might not do for Android normally but might be just fine functionally, for Linux.