It was called Fairphone:
“The ________ that can change a whole industry.”
Sure, it’s the FP4. But why should the FP4 change the industry? According to this, e.g. the FP3(+) would have done the same.
Has anyone here had this theory? My theory is that they have found a way that the Linux kernel and baseband can easily be updated and provided with security updates for 10 years. That would cover all 3 levels of security. (Fairphone has control over updates for the operating system itself anyway).
This is an extremely difficult task and would indeed be a great game changer in the industry. So far, this is the only reason why a smartphone cannot be used (“safely”) for much longer than 3 years. Fairphone itself has already made the painful experience that there is no more help from e.g. Qualcom after a certain time. Nevertheless, together with the community, they have made another update for the FP2 possible with great effort.
A hidden hint to this could be their tweets from 23.9. They are not about the Fairphone, but about smartphones that can be used for 10 years. (or not )
Only if you align yourself with a Red Hat/Debian/Ubuntu LTS release. That’s really not an easy thing to do. The SoC is also challenging without vendor support, since those are closed sources blobs.
Ok, we’ll only have to wait less than 48 hours to be sure but as there were some speculations about the FP4 not having an SD slot anymore: today’s leaks indicate it will still have one
On /e/ forum it was written that they will wait with the rename of the brand /e/ until the September and they still didn’t announce it. So maybe they are waiting for FP and just maybe, they will announce it together. Although /e/ did not announce anything for 30th of September…
And yes, the specs look great for me. To be honest I didn’t imagine that FP could be so up-to-date with technology. I use my FP2 now for 5 years and it was out-dated when I bought it. I went from Sony Xperia Z Compact (Snapdragon 800) to FP2 (Snapdragon 801). Now from FP2 to FP4 will be like future for me
Wow, that all sounds pretty damn good! What I like most is that the main camera seems to finally be a really good one and that there is a good ultra-wide angle camera built in.
Let’s wait and see. The FP3 had the same sensor as a Pixel 3a and it wasn’t that great. The FP3+ wasn’t a huge difference either. Most optimization is done in software, not hardware.
Why? Always on displays provide much more information and are energy friendly. I’ve been using it for 3 years now on my Pixel 3. I thought I would miss the notification LED and all the color customization stuff. But having an icon just on your screen is so much better
)
