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Leak: Fairphone 6 launching soon with modernized, modular design for €549
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Could I get a fairphone that won't suffer from obsolescence after a few years? I swear I was just looking at the 4 and deciding against it because I heard people were having issues sourcing parts for older fairphones.
Can I get a forever phone where I can upgrade and repair module by module until I've thesiused and frankensteined every piece into a whole new phone?
I'm not having trouble sourcing parts for my FP4, maybe that's a regional issue or it's still too new. I intend to keep it for at least 10 years, but the most worrisome thing for me is that there are simply no aftermarket components. Maybe the market just isn't big enough for that, but it means we'll be stuck with whatever number of original parts the manufacturer provides.
You can get a fp 4 which is still getting updates after 10 years. I have no idea where you got the idea that if a phone is not the newest thing, its obsolete. Except maybe if youre one of those iPhone Lobotomites
Again. It is 10 year old. You should not be getting a phone at the end of its lifespan.
That would be great, but again, a phone is not the same as a Framework laptop. You have way less space in there, and unlike Laptops, the Question of Modularity has not already been solved by a 20 Year old 10 kg Thinkpad.
Also, the things you care about like the Camera and such have not changed for phones in a long time, together with the Power requirement. I can still use my old af S7 just like my 2 year old pixel 7 without problems, and furthermore, the only thing that significantly changes with the models is their approach to the whole chassis to the phone, and aou cant just expect to put the mb of a Framework 13 into a 16 without problems
Fairphone 1: 2013
Fairphone 2: 2015
Fairphone 3: 2019
Fairphone 3+: 2020
Fairphone 4: 2021
Fairphone 5: 2023
Fairphone 6: 2025
The FP4 is 10 years old? How long have I had mine I wonder?
Never had a case on it, dropped it quite a few times, once or twice off a tram onto the pavement.
I started to notice some very thin cracks forming around the edges of the screen, but the frame looks like I took an angle grinder to it.
I don't plan to replace it any time soon.
Sry, 3 year old
Iirc when i was looking the price had dropped due to the 5 coming.
How's the replacement parts infrastructure holding up on the 4? Genuine ask, I mostly shitpost ✌️
The way I use tech I'm going back to 10 year old thinkpads, mp3 players, dumb phones and polaroid cameras anyway.
The replacement parts are still there. Just like with the 3, just like with the 2, partly
The only bad thing about it is that the support ends in 2 years, but you can just try Calyx Extended support on it, or postmarketOS
I'm actually a bit surprised, the parts for the 2 are what I remember being complained about lol.
Thats what I said, partly. They still have some, but its not reliable anymore
I think one could build a mobile phone themselves but it would probably come out very big
I'm into it.