Weekly poll results: the sustainable Fairphone 5 has its fans and its detractors
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- Anonymous
- 0BG
- 18 Sep 2023
YUKI93, 18 Sep 2023I don't think price is the problem. You're not pa... moreWell I can buy a 350EUR phone every 3 years, so in the end I'll pay the same amount, but have better phones for the next ~10years.
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- K1L
- 18 Sep 2023
I don't think price is the problem. You're not paying €700/£650 for something that can only last two or three years with minimal software support. Even Samsung cannot give more than five years of security patches on their flagship phones that cost twice the price of this Fairphone. Also, you pay a relatively low price for its stupidly low repairability. Buying another and another used phones means that you're practically preaching e-waste.
For me, the problem has always been the availability. I always applaud Fairphone for seriously taking carbon neutrality and environmental sustainability. However, it also means they never sell it outside the EU, or it'll hurt their low carbon emission footprint. There's not even a third-party dealer who can sell it through Amazon.
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- Anonymous
- 0BG
- 18 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 17 Sep 2023If you only saw their new excuse about the removal of the h... moreCouldn't find it, what story did they insult their customers with this time?
I saw the 10EUR adapter they are selling on their site and they are even bragging "they want to minimize e-waste, so there's nothing else in the box".
WOW, they are just totally mocking their fans.
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- Anonymous
- 0BG
- 18 Sep 2023
Arol, 18 Sep 2023Fairphone is a very transparent company, so anyone can find... moreWell they are transparently evil just like any other manufacturer.
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- Carol
- nUJ
- 18 Sep 2023
hmm, 17 Sep 2023You can't repair slowness this phone have in 5 years. ... moreWhere do you get your info, from chinaware bashing europe.com? The company is more then a decade old and no battery from their phone line got overpriced, this device costs 699 euros and it's battery costs 40 euros. Your vision of the future is not only distorted is also false and pretentios, while you have no idea about what you're talking about and keep pushing poco clones in every comment. You like paying for garbageware, have fun, but for g sake stop a little and open your eyes, nobody that is interested in a fairphone will ever consider poco clone. And that is not because they do not know poco clone and the chinese army of ewaste devices, it is because they do not care about them, so nope you're not out-smarting anybody with your poco clone comparisons. Get over yourself and respect peoples decisions and principles. If you can't do that, you shouldn't be allowed comment hier.
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- Arol
- nUJ
- 18 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 17 Sep 2023If you only saw their new excuse about the removal of the h... moreFairphone is a very transparent company, so anyone can find anything they say and claim on their official webSite, so stop being ignorant...
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- Anonymous
- vaS
- 18 Sep 2023
hmm, 17 Sep 2023You can't repair slowness this phone have in 5 years.
... moreObviously, you haven't seen the modding community lol. They made the Note 3 usable, even if only secondary phone, with Android 11. Impressive after being told by Scamsung that it cannot run Android 6. FP will be better since a company supports it.
You're free to keep buying new stuff every year. Let FP buyers support it however they want.
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- Subarbie Hsu
- FMY
- 17 Sep 2023
If they should make this phone available worldwide, especially in the Philippines, then I will definitely invest on it.
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- DGV
- 17 Sep 2023
hmm, 17 Sep 2023You can't repair slowness this phone have in 5 years. ... moreNope this is the only phone on the market today that will survive 10 years
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- Kai
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- 17 Sep 2023
hmm, 17 Sep 2023I have lots of better options to pick from market for 999 e... moreDude you get it wrong. It is not about price, specs or updates. The point is to do things differently to attract ppl. It didn’t affect you, so skip it and buy what you want.
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- J9W
- 17 Sep 2023
Wereweeb, 17 Sep 2023Oh no, the horror! It won't run Genshin Impact 2! How ... moreI am running on Haswell that is like 11-12 years old and your Sandy Bridge is 2 generations older so it be like 15 years old for you. or you bought old hardware ten years ago.
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- J9W
- 17 Sep 2023
no, 17 Sep 2023This is the best repairable phone on the market that respec... moreYou can't repair slowness this phone have in 5 years.
And after 5 years to more 3 OS updates.
If your battery needs to be repaired in 5 years then that battery probably cost around 150-200 euro cause the phone now cost 999 so why not.
In 5 years you probably have phones that cost 150-200 euro.
Well even now with Redmi 12 5G with SD 4 Gen 2 and 450k Antutu v10 score.
While Fairphone 5 is around 605k Antutu v10 score and that Redmi 12 5G dont have global yet but still should stay under 200 euro. So if even now we see phones with this type of performance then think about what be 5 years in the future
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- Wereweeb
- P66
- 17 Sep 2023
justasmile, 17 Sep 20238 years from now, this will run like a piece of shit in a w... moreOh no, the horror! It won't run Genshin Impact 2! How is a phone usable if it doesn't run games at 120 FPS!
Meanwhile I'm using a 10 year old Sandy Bridge as my main computer, because it still does all I want without noticeable hiccups. Which doesn't include cosplaying as a gaming youtuber.
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- DGV
- 17 Sep 2023
Ribbz, 17 Sep 2023The Nokia c32 is better than this This is the best repairable phone on the market that respects you, hope Sony have some Ericsson DNA left then we have another manufacturer
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- Anonymous
- mxx
- 17 Sep 2023
no headphone jack ?
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- DGV
- 17 Sep 2023
Fairphone is on the right track, users need digital freedom as in life in general, bundling together a series of application services is the wrong way forward, all major internet companies are already breaking the law today
What If Our Clothes Could Disrupt Surveillance Cameras?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDP4P59KYPg
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- Anonymous
- vaS
- 17 Sep 2023
justasmile, 17 Sep 20238 years from now, this will run like a piece of shit in a w... moreExtremely powerful phones that will be limited to social media use for the majority of buyers and limited storage to even hoard big sized games? Companies love these not only people who pay more for less but also people who overpay for their use case.
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- Anonymous
- vaS
- 17 Sep 2023
Tyas2012, 17 Sep 2023Fairphone claims on their website that their cares about pl... moreIf you only saw their new excuse about the removal of the headphone jack. Too bad it's on LinkedIn lmao.