I’ve been holding off on getting either the 4 or 5 until Ubuntu Touch supports voLTE for the US, but if either came with an e-ink (especially colored) display I’d put purchasing priority to the very front.
oli.sax
October 14, 2024, 8:30am
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VoLTE support on UT is soon, Marius just made a “call for testing” for Qualcomm devices.
yvmuell
May 29, 2025, 8:56pm
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A post was merged into an existing topic: FP7 Future Fairphone tech
yvmuell
May 29, 2025, 8:54pm
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Closing here, to not further duplicate discussions as e-ink will def never come for the FP4
Good points! I already got a bit annoyed by the low brightness in some outdoor situations on the FP5 for example (thinking of it, maybe my fault with dark mode)
But if fairphone sold a separate e-ink screen, I would absolutely buy it to retro-fit it, even monochrome, at least to try.
And too bad for photos, I take too many anyway; more seriously, it probably wouldn’t be very hard to adapt a camera app to have a still frame every 2s updating preview or something.
Thinking of it, Open Camera al…
