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https://www.fairphone.com/en/2024/09/04/how-much-ram-does-your-smartphone-need/

Couldn't find another decent link in that wasn't written in Dutch, but you'll find it at the bottom of the story.

Besides the storage and RAM, nothing else has changed.

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[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As I understand it: Framework is for people who don't want to sacrifice a great PC for repairability, which comes at a price. Fairphone is for people who want outdated hardware and stock Android in exchange for repairability, at pretty much the same price as a competitive product.

But: Compared to Framework, Fairphone is a pretty small company which tries to create as much of its products as possible in a sustainable manner. And for smartphones, that's just not super easy or sustainable as a business.

Fairphone doesn't really targer enthusiasts or the mass market, they are targeting a (sadly) small group of people who care enough about the environment to sacrifice convenience for it.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn't fairphone originally about being sweatshop-free with the sustainability or repairability claims being afterthoughts? Am I thinking about something else?

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Could be. Can't find anything specific about that atm, but the Fairphone 1 was already highly repairable, even though it wasn't necessarily modular. So yeah, the repairability thing was probably something they went with as a secondary goal.

I found this iFixit teardown of the Fairphone 1. Doesn't seem to be too complicated to take appart, but then again, neither were a lot of other phones at the time.