The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.

Shame there is no Graphene OS support for it

If they just didn't drop the headphone jack.

That's cool. Let me know when it gets support for GrapheneOS and finds it's headphone jack again.

I really wish this was available in the US. I've found myself able to hang on to devices longer and longer. So this would be perfect. I'm only charging my battery to 80% and discharging it to 30% before charging it again just to prolong the life of the battery because that's the first thing that dies on most devices. Having a user replaceable battery again would be an absolute godsend.

I would totally be interested if they had solid Linux support, such as postmarketOS or mobian. Those systems continue to get updates long after most Android devices stop supplying updates, so it would fit really well with a repairable phone. It shouldn't be the default, but it would be awesome if they helped the Linux phone community make it the best supported hardware for the various Linux phone projects.

According to the postmarketOS wiki, audio is completely broken, so you have to use Bluetooth. That kind of sucks.

This would've been my new phone if it had a headphone jack.

I'm using this phone right now and I love it. it feels solid. Im using a degoogled ROM and it just works, there seems to be a lot of people pressing for graphene os specifically and discrediting the phone for what it is. its so easy to take apart and cheaply repair its great. it's perfect for folk who want a decent smartphone that you dont have to worry about being thrown around. sure it's not perfect but it is still a very good

I've owned the 4, for a couple of years. Was really excited to get one.

Parts have been unavailable for a long time when I needed them. The battery is pretty dead after 2 years meanwhile my pixel which is about 5 years old still going strong. The os is the buggiest experience I've ever had, sluggish, going from portrait the landscape kills UI formatting if it switches to power save it'll skip a video. Boot loops constantly.

Never again I'm afraid it's neat I could fix things with it so quickly but they fail hard past that.

Example navigation buttons have just covered the voyager ui

Only 400€ to go until I can afford it.

I really want this to come to the US as well..

Is this phone also more secure?

The problem we are running into right now is Apple and Google are colluding with the US government over fascism and they are supporting their Nazi regime

They have all the power and they can change all of these services overnight, they can track you and everything and you will have no idea and no way to get rid of it

We really need an open replacement. Phones are now used for everything

I'm waiting on a Framework Phone.

I have the fairphone 4 and have had no issues. As long as a fairphone exists I don't see any reason I should switch.

500 Euro for what amounts to a midrange phone still seems like yuppie consumerism to me. Better to get an older phone and hold onto it. My Moto G4 lasted 7 years before obsolescence and physical wear caught up with it. I wonder how many current Fairphones will still be in use in 2034.

Aaaand it's impossible to buy in the US. Even if USians want to do the right thing, we're not permitted.

Please get through the FCC and open sales in the USA before Fairphone 6 is made.

I really don't want to buy another unrepairable phone.

The lack of an FM radio and headphone jack make it unusable for me.

I've had this phone for over a year with Murena e/OS/! 90hz refresh rate is so nice

Still like the idea behind it and wish there was support for GrapheneOS (going even further than /e/o) as well as better camera quality but this is the price we have to pay for flexibility and sustainability I think. Like the concept here but never tried to go with one so far.

The hardware is good and I like the idea in principle but Fairphone's support and software QA is dreadful and you need to hope you never need the former because of problems with the latter. My FP5 was bricked by an update they pushed out and after six weeks of trying to get a solution from their support (four weeks of which they didn't respond at all) I ended up claiming on insurance and buying a Pixel. According to the forums this problem is far from unique to me.

Really wish Fairphone would come to the US. I'd spend the money on it, but they only half-ass sold the last gen phone here on the US.

I don't even understand why. They support most 4G and every mid and low band 5G in America. Even if I could just import it, I'd be happy.

The headphone jack user to lemmy user ratio is apparently nearly 1:1

I wish importing phones were an option for my country, but no. Even if I secured a way to bring it here, it takes 1000 dollars just to register its IMEI to use here.

No headphones jack.

Trash generating hypocrites.

HMD are doing everything better than fair phone now with their latest models. More repairable, more flexible, long term support and updates.

Cheaper too.

Anyone tried this Linuxphone?

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-community-phone

Unfortunately it's not available in the US though.

ass stock operating system, no macro lens, shit battery, still overpriced. you are better off with a refurbished pixel with a custom os.

im still not sure the whole business thing is a just a greenwashing scam or not.

on the other hand the battery can just be popped out, has a cool semitranspaerant early 00s design.

Fairphone 6 approaching? They are great, the project is amazing and I wish every brand would be like them in terms of caring about users and environment

Great idea, but will never take down here in south America

People know that all these import parts and replacements are not exactly easy to pay for, even less to find. They need a cheap reliable phone that will at least handle day to day for years

I mean come on, the average cellphone user here is still using the equivalent of a Moto G2 or Samsung J2 and thats stretching it.

An S8 is still seen like luxury in here. And I'm not even going into iphones.

I've been meaning to look into PinePhone myself.

Can even get it pre-installed with /e/OS to minimise snooping by Google

I like it a lot but I need two physical SIM slots so it doesn't work for me, unfortunately. But great idea and love the price drop

They say it's supported until 2031.

What will a 5G phone with at most 8GB RAM have to offer in 2031?

Fairphone don't sell replacement mainboards, presumably to stop people building phones from parts but they look very serviceable in other respects.

Anyone know what the bootloader unlock process is like for Fairphone? I know they support it, but does it take 7 days like OnePlus or constantly have issues like Motorola?

Out of curiosity... how is doing that in 2025?

Went to buy one but they don't sell to USA any more. THAT will tell off tRump.

I don't want to pay now then £200 for a phone and i want a small one.