The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years

NarrativeBear , 4 months ago

Less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years sounds like most video games now.

elxeno , 4 months ago

Early access phones!

Fake4000 , 4 months ago

The phone is great and things can be replaced easily. My only issue with the phone is it’s price. It’s quite high compared to phones with similar specs.

Thekingoflorda , 4 months ago

Yea that’s what happens if the company at least tries to make it repairable and not made by exploited people.

TheGrandNagus , 4 months ago

It’s because they try to ethically source as much of the phone as possible, and go out of their way to pay fair wages and ensure no forced labour is used in the supply chain.

Unfortunately that adds significant cost.

raspberriesareyummy , 4 months ago

Unfortunately that adds significant cost.

That’s not unfortunate, that’s logical. Unfortunately, other companies are allowed to exploit humans and the environment for more profit despite lower prices.

WhatAmLemmy , 4 months ago

It’s amazing when you realize that modern civilization as we know it depends on numerous layers of slavery, child labor, and general worker exploitation.

nikt , 4 months ago

Also don’t forget the “externalized” costs of massive and irreversible environmental damage!

raspberriesareyummy , 4 months ago

Yeah I feel all it takes is 5% of mankind to have evil / selfish intentions, to corrupt the system

TheGrandNagus , 4 months ago

Well yeah, I mean unfortunate as in it’s unfortunate it makes it a harder buy. I’m not pissed off that it’s more ethically produced.

cashews_best_nut , 4 months ago

They only harvest from sustainable phone forests. 👍

Nacktmull , 4 months ago

for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone

laughs in Fairphone 3

potustheplant , 4 months ago

Why are you posting an article from september 2023?

Speculater , 4 months ago

I’m in the market for a phone and love this idea, but 8x digital zoom without optical zoom options in 2024 is a non-starter for me.

poVoq , 4 months ago

Maybe the best part of the FP5 that is talked about little is that the main SoC is not a consumer grade Qualcomm chip, but an industrial grade one that will get driver and firmware upgrades for a much longer time than the consumer ones.

In addition it is fairly similar to other slightly older Qualcomm chips that already have main-line Linux kernel support, so the prospects of running Mobian or PostmarketOS on it are quite good.

autotldr Bot , 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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There are those who are happy to be in the market for a new device, who delight in discovering how phones have improved since they last upgraded and who can’t wait to reap the benefits of better low-light camera performance, a prettier display, and more premium build quality.

They’re the people who respond with despair when they’re told that their phone has reached the end of its software support period or that it’s no longer cost-effective to repair a seemingly minor hardware fault.

But now the phone comes equipped with technological advancements such as a modern OLED display with a high refresh rate, more robust waterproofing, and a higher-capacity battery.

To that end, there are actually more individually accessible modules this time around, which is nice if you, say, only need to replace one rear camera that’s broken or swap out a faulty SIM card tray.

That’s better than the IP54 rating of the Fairphone 4 (which was still resilient enough for me to use throughout an exceptionally rainy hike), but it still falls short of allowing you to fully immerse the device in water like you can do with an IP68-rated phone.

In low light, the phone produces superficially nice shots, but peer a little closer, and it looks like this is the work of aggressive processing, with a lot of fine detail smoothed out and colors artificially boosted.

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