A little bigger, eight years of support, ability to repair when things break. Still no headphone jack and the AMOLED display is a regression. Expensive but doesn’t use slave labor so that’s good. I’ll stick with the FP4
If my employer wasn’t offering and forcing me to work with an iPhone 13, that’s what I would buy and probably use /e/os on it.
I hope people keep buying these so that bigger manufacturers have less and less success with their throwable phones.
The only downside is that 10 year of support ain’t that much when you see what Linux can do on a 15 years old computer. Still, it’s not Fairphone´s fault.
iPhone has great longevity as well. Better than any Fairphone or an overwhelming majority of Android devices. The 2014 6s is still getting security updates.
Well I wouldn’t really now as my employer is giving/forcing me to have a new one every 2 years.
But yeah you can feel that the hardware is good.
Still I can’t say I would buy anything from Apple with my own money (except an end of life Mac to put Linux on it for cheap).
The biggest reason why I didn’t buy a fp4 was that it had subpar performance almost overall. This seems like a pretty big step in the right direction so maybe my next handset will be a sustainable one!
I wouldn’t use a Fairphone ever since I do find the headphone jack necessary but also I find their reasoning very slimy and manipulative. They claimed they removed it to reduce waste (I don’t see how taking people’s options away does that at all, seems like BS) but it happened right before they started selling Bluetooth airbuds, which ironically aren’t repairable since the battery can’t be replaced nondestructively.
So in essence they’re claiming environmental sustainability but really it’s likely they’re just saying that so they can line their pockets and sell more of their Bluetooth earbuds, which I remind you can’t really be repaired so they’re garbage once the batteries in them wear out.
