Fairphone 5
- MRDA
- 7WK
- 20 Sep 2023
I guess the alleged eco-friendliness is the only real selling point. Oversized, no headphone jack, expensive, uninspiring battery life. I guess the easy swappabilty of the battery and the 8-year-update schedule are pluses, but will you want to hold onto it for even a quarter of that time?
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- Anonymous
- 0BG
- 20 Sep 2023
Dion3285, 20 Sep 2023"Millions of environment damaging phones will be sold ... moreSoftware support is overrated. I still have a spare phone running Android 8 and And all the apps work just fine.
Like I said, I appreciate the idea and non-removable batteries are one of the reasons I've never bought a flagship, but 3.5mm jack is another reason. They have also neglected non-expensive things like speakers, so they are not "fair" and there's no way I'm gonna pay them tons of money for a phone I will hate more than a $200 POS phone.
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- Dion3285
- 8k{
- 20 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 19 Sep 2023Millions of environment damaging phones will be sold for a ... more"Millions of environment damaging phones will be sold for a few thousand of these fairphones so what difference does it make? Absolutely nothing."
And that's exactly why people and the industry needs to stop buying and selling phones that are useless / without software support after 2/3/4 years.
If you won't do it, then someone else wont do it because you didn't do it, so it must be worthless. Someone has to start
I'm not saying buy this Fairphone 5 but you have to realize you can't wait for everyone to catch up, because they will do the same thing; wait.
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- Dion3285
- 8k{
- 20 Sep 2023
Sp3c1aL, 19 Sep 2023you can buy Samsung S22+ for like 500 USD and that phone wi... moreWow almost like it's a completely different phone, for a different market (not repairable / sustainability market) made by a massive global company instead of a reasonably small company
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- FMT
- nXm
- 19 Sep 2023
Sp3c1aL, 19 Sep 2023you can buy Samsung S22+ for like 500 USD and that phone wi... more"UNfairphone"? That's gold, did you come up with that all by yourself? Hilarious.
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- Sp3c1aL
- ixj
- 19 Sep 2023
Dion3285, 03 Sep 2023700 Euro's is definitely expensive, but to be fair you... moreyou can buy Samsung S22+ for like 500 USD and that phone will blow the UNfairphone outta the water with performance, literally at least 2x better performance on every aspect like 120HZ refresh rate,better 5000Mah battery, better camera, better for gaming, better for literally everything in every aspect
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- Anonymous
- 0BG
- 19 Sep 2023
This phone is mediocre at everything. I can buy a much better phone every 3 years and after ~10 years i would have spent the same amount of money without tormenting myself with a pathetic excuse of a phone.
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- Anonymous
- PqC
- 19 Sep 2023
Millions of environment damaging phones will be sold for a few thousand of these fairphones so what difference does it make? Absolutely nothing.
Just driving an internal combustion engine car everyday to work will damage the environment thousands of times more than all the phones you will ever own so plant some trees and drive an electric scooter to work and you will REALLY be giving you 2 cents.
Be smart and avoid getting yourself ripped off.
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- Destiny.Zeros
- PX0
- 19 Sep 2023
Qualcomm QCM6490 ??
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- Asif
- UUK
- 18 Sep 2023
Fairphone 5 has the same features as other phones, but one advantage is that you can repair it yourself, but the price of this phone is much higher.
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- Anonymous
- mxh
- 17 Sep 2023
TTtt, 09 Sep 2023They are inconsistent with the major Android version update... morehttps://www.fairphone.com/en/2023/08/30/is-the-fairphone-5-the-most-sustainable-phone-in-the-world/
Here's the confirmation
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- Chicken wing
- gq9
- 16 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 16 Sep 2023Maybe a fair phone but the price is not fair at all. For 40... moreSo you buy 2 phones for the price of one which means extra e-waste and recourse winning, which are both made zero percent of recycled materials, worker get paid a dollar per hour, miners work in the worst conditions, some children assemble the phone but you ask yourself why the price is higher than same specced phones 🤡🤦♂️🤦♀️🤷
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- jpn4
- yJt
- 16 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 16 Sep 2023Maybe a fair phone but the price is not fair at all. For 40... more“The price is not fair” omg really what do you expect of all the extra costs to make it fair?
Some people just don’t get it, eh?
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- sasquatch
- Y73
- 16 Sep 2023
vodny, 15 Sep 2023The main downside for this phone is definitely the price. I... moreThis phone costs this much because it's supposed to last for years, unlike every other phone that is designed to be chucked in the trash the moment the battery stops taking a charge. Everything on this phone is supposed to be repairable. If the battery goes bad, just buy another battery, instead of an entire phone.
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- Anonymous
- Evs
- 16 Sep 2023
Maybe a fair phone but the price is not fair at all. For 400$ I can get a phone with similar specs and during the year's if I can't replace a component I have more 400$ to spend in a new phone.
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- Anonymous
- thf
- 16 Sep 2023
chuck.sneed, 15 Sep 2023Fairphone is one of the few manufacturers not selling blata... moreIt's a good thing people like you don't design phones because they would be complete utter trash
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- lneam
- S49
- 15 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 04 Sep 2023At this price it should have been QCS8550. Unfairphone buye... moreQCS8550 is a 2023 product from qualcomm. Fairphone company has start the design Fairphone 5 from 2022 to be ready at 2023. Fairphone company will use the QCS8550 to design the Fairphone 6
- vodny
- SYq
- 15 Sep 2023
The main downside for this phone is definitely the price. I don't know if the price is fair, but for most people who just want a decent phone that works it's too high. Around $450 would be ok and well justified, but $800 is insane. For this money you can get flagship phones that surpass this phone in almost every aspect. Why people who care about environment are the ones who must pay the most? This logic is against those believs.
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- chuck.sneed
- xiQ
- 15 Sep 2023
Fairphone is one of the few manufacturers not selling blatant planned obsolescence. I only wish they would go in the lightweight, small screen, low power draw RISC-V chipset direction instead of the widescreen OLED brick route.
Not all of us are gamers. I would bet for most of us the most pressing worry is dropping the thing and cracking the screen rather than noticing a 5ms latency on a 5g millimeter wave streamed 4k belle delphine ice cream so good tik tok or whatever. F = ma so the more bloated the phone is with giant UHD screen and giant battery needed to power it, the more likely it is to crack. The screen reaching the edges doesn't help. That's why you have to swaddle the thing in a fat case and screen protector for it to not die instantly from the slightest impact.
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- JosipFUT
- xqE
- 15 Sep 2023
This mobile phone has better speakers than the HONOR 50 up to the HONOR 90, which is unfortunate for Honor, especially since this Fairphone has a stronger processor than the Honor 50 up to the Honor 90. This hurts Honor a lot.