I tried the new Fairphone, a phone designed to be repaired

I tried the new Fairphone, a phone designed to be repaired fastcompany.com

23 points•vismit2000•11 days ago•8 comments•

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The issue I found was that you couldn't replace every single part of the phone, and also they never did the actual upgrade components that was promised. Instead just making more phones which in my view goes against the point.

d3Xt3r10 days ago

Too bad that the OS isn't designed to be repaired. It would've been nice if they could partner up with postmarketOS or similar and ship a proper Linux distro, so we're free to customise/build/update/replace parts of the OS.

lazzurs11 days ago

If this came with GrapheneOS and had the updates on time I'd buy in a heartbeat.

neobrain11 days ago

Obviously not ideal, but update latency is much better with other third party distributions like iodéOS or CalyxOS.

At least in contrast to other vendors, FP provides official support for microG, so this has been without noticeable loss of stability/quality for my use cases so far.

sombragris10 days ago

A big letdown for me is the lack of a headphone jack.

altern811 days ago

That's a big phone...

bcraven11 days ago

You can complain phone sizes here:

https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=14883&idPhone2=...

altern811 days ago

Yes, it's big. Right now I have a Google Pixel, and I find it way too big already: https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=14883&idPhone2=...

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