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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)
submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by dwazou@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 64 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 hours ago

The answer is likley never, GOS devs dont trust Fairphone devs (due to poor security practices) and Fairphone devs are unwilling (in some cases unable) to meet the extremely high standards for GOS.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Big red flag:

[–] bilb@lem.monster 58 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't that basically equate to "yep, this is an android phone?"

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. My current one is dying and I'm using it almost always wired to a charger or battery. I don't care how badly they try to waste my battery, I'm not buying a new Android phone ever. If this one dies, I'm prepared to not use a phone until there's a reasonably priced Linux phone.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Just replace the battery then. Most phone shops have the ability and tools to do it in about an hour to 3 hours.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I'm afraid. Lol phones with non replaceable batteries suck.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 3 points 4 hours ago

They are replaceable, it just takes some tools and work, both of which you can get at the phone repair shop.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

What a non sequitur.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'd just install another OS to begin with. But again, I'd reaaally like it to be GrapheneOS. And then again, Pixels also come with all that crap (and much more) enabled by default.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Graphene doesn't. The way I see it is like buying a laptop with pre-installed Windows, and replacing the OS.