Dangit Fairphone where were you 6 months ago when I was looking for a new phone.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I love my Fairphone 3. This is great news.
Ohhh, I go between Europe and the US a lot and own one of these. Hopefully this means US companies will offer more support for the fairphone 4!
Great news. The more sustainable options the better. Hopefully it will do well
wooo /e/ the worst name for a great os. I use their Murena as my phone and I would love to have it on a fairphone
I have a fariphone 4 since it was released and I'm very happy with it. It's does not have the most powerful or newest specs, if you only care about performance the price is pretty high, but you wouldn't buy one if that's your priority anyway and so far, it works great.
They are pretty cool but you are still stuck with Android so its a no for me.
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A lot easier to buy a samsung and get rid of the bloatware. Much more powerful too. Fairphone seems like a gimmick to me.
Do you understand the selling point of this phone or not?
It's is almost always a lot easier to pay less for a superior product that is less ethical and environmentally friendly.
Looks like my next phone is decided on.
CustomROMs fun and all but it is a bit of hussle.
I have it and I'm pretty happy with it, but for some reason I have dropped this phone way more often than any phone I had before. Idk if this is a me issue, but maybe get a protective case from the start (unlike me)
The concept is cool but I think it is more sustainable to have a high end "normal" android phone. The Fairphone ships with a lowend chip that is already older. It may be usable now but it won't be in a few years apps and OS will be more ressource-intensive. A high-end chip of a "normal" device (8gen1/2) is way more powerful and will surely be enough for the next 5 years. The SD750G will propably not.
Not to mention that the software updates will be more reliable on big brand phones.
Hard to say for sure, keep in mind that this is a degoogled by default android, meaning that depending on how much Google services chug (and oh boy, do they chug) the phone may hold up with no problem at all.
While it is a computer, my personal Lenovo T60 from (i think) 2007 is still my favorite machine to browse the internet on and read articles. Once I librebooted it and installed debian, it ran with no problems at all and is very functional till this day
I have the fairphone 3 and it's still doing fine. I don't game on it but map navigation and 1080p videos run well.
I'd like one of these but I'm not sold on De-Googled
Same. In my experience as well, almost all alternatives to Google Maps either:
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don't have Android Auto support (a must for me)
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don't have local coffee shops (you'd be surprised how often these apps fail to find 7-Brew coffee shops...)
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don't actually give you enough time to turn (Waze... Which is also owned by Google btw)
Waze is the closest of these but man it's annoying with that third bullet point. It's also not FOSS.
I can only imagine Magic Maps falls into one of those three categories too.
Organic Maps is surprisingly good. Not fantastic, no - but it can highlight coffee shops or restaurants or gas stations on your route
I definitely like Organic Maps the best of the options I've tried, but unfortunately it doesn't have Android Auto support.
It looks like they tried to do Android Auto support about a year ago in a branch, but they abandoned the branch. There is a new "aa" branch that is active though, so hopefully that works out.
If it does get Android Auto support, I will definitely switch to it permanently though!
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Hopefully United Staters get the FP4 and we get the FP5