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Fairphone 5 Announced! (shop.fairphone.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looks like a new model for the Fairphone has been announced! What do you think about it?

Personally I love the fairphone project but after having tried GrapheneOS on my Pixel 6a it would be hard to move to a different OS

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a valid concern, but it also assumes that the requirements for apps will go up in a similar trend as they did in the previous 8-10 years.
I'm not entirely convinced that they will. Smartphones 10 years ago were still very much a developing product category, whereas I think today they are generally matured.

Just look at laptops as a comparison. When they were still rapidly developing, an eight year old laptop would have pretty much been obsolete. But today an eight year old laptop will still serve most people perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not that sure, to be honest. I remember how a few (5 I think) years old midrange laptop became hardly usable for internet browsing.

It will be very interesting to get data about real life usage of fair phones (and other phones as well) - like what % of sold phones are still used in 1, 2, 5, 8.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's rubbish, 2018 most laptops were using 8th gen Intel CPUs, and they still work fine today for web-browsing and doing word processing and not too heavy spreadsheet work. An i5 from that era is still perfectly usable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@HidingCat @shaked_coffee @gelberhut @Humanius an 8th gen i7 is still a beast, even if most laptop ones only have 4 cores.