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Fairphone. I've yet to try one myself, but I've seen a lot of good reviews
I've been using my FP4 for over 3 years, and can't really complain too much about it. the battery life started degrading quite significantly for me last year (I use my phone a lot), so I just ordered a new one and replaced it in under a minute.
I'm sad this has to be mentioned to be sure, but for anyone reading this who may not know the concepts behind Fairphone: Yes, that is ordering a new battery, not having to order a new phone. Just wanting to make sure no one accidentally misunderstands, from being used to the status quo of phones being non-serviceable by the consumer.
I have a FP4 and like it well enough. It's not without flaws though.
such a let down they axed off the headphone jack
I only know one person in real life with a fp4 after 2.5 years or so.
She says it absolutely sucks, takes forever to load anything on mobile internet (apparently the antennas are horrible or something), android auto barely works, and she says it will probably end up being her least-long lasting phone because it is just becoming more unusable by the month.
I was ready to buy into a fp5 to replace my sony 5ii (partly because on the MKBHD picture test it scored just under the pixels for me personally and it actually has an SD card slot unlike pixels) until I heard that review. Especially because I use android auto regularly.
Then also on reddit, where people ask about fairphone experiences and it is not just advertisements like on Lemmy, every detailed review says it is software bugs galore and mediocre hardware. Allegedly fair phone developers don't develop on fairphones so bugs are rarely noticed and take extremely long time to fix. Also I hear updates are extremely slow and late.
Again, I haven't used one myself, but when reviews are in one of two categories:
- extremely vague "great phone no issues"
- Very detailed review of how buggy and slow to update or fix bugs it it is
I tend to believe the much more detailed review as I got burned on the HMD Nokia 7.1 that was the biggest piece of garbage I have ever used.
My gf has a Fairphone 4 and it's decent. She isn't a power user so it works fine for her though as a techy person I find it kinda slow. Of course there is the 5 now and potentially the 6 later this year which will be faster.
Feels solid in the hand and the cameras are much better than I thought they would be
I know 4 people directly, who use a FP 3 or 4 and they are just fine. Best thing are the long lasting security updates (7+ years) and of course repairability.
I used a FP3 until recently, now a FP5. Very happy with it. Repairability is a very real thing in these phones, not just a gimmick. :)
I totally agree. Everyone is talking about those flagship stats nobody uses. I want a phone that works and that as long as possible. I daily drive a FP4 (included myself in the 4 people) with CalyxOS and I love it.