Fairphones in Australia 🇦🇺

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for me, thankfully, fairphone goes well and truly beyond ticking all my non-jack boxes. it has been quite a delight having a fairphpne 4 for most of the past 4 years. but there are just too many issues with not having a jack, it’s gotten to the point i’ve just had to abandon the precious headphones for nearly 2 years now.
which is very depressing with music and quality audio reproduction and just sound overall being among my greatest joys!
a jack is now a must for future, especially as the time to get a new phone approaches ever closer.

i had been eyeing up/mulling over (& putting extra effort to saving up for) an xperia the last week or so. before your comment it seemed possibly the best (albeit pricey!!) choice. but this ivalo xe does seem quite intriguing, thank you very much! quite valuable to have more options to consider.
had a good laugh they felt the need to test for ip69k and not just ip68; hard pressed to think of any real-life scenario where that’d be relevant, but sure why not

will be reaching out to devs for two questions: max microsd capacity support, and if the front camera is replaceable (the latter of which i can’t explain why it’s helpful but it is helpful still). will post answers here for anyone interested

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also for anyone looking into the teracube 2s mentioned above and shares my need for a larger microsd, it’s max supported size is 256gb so a tad underwhelming

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okay an update from chat with support. it has no sd support for security reasons. expected to be available directly within AU before the turn of the year.

but when asking about the replaceability of any parts, i was directed to a more specialized link. the conversation was something along the lines of:

“the ivalo xe is not available for purchase by the general public (at least not directly from them?), please visit this link (which requires details like organization, job position, etc.) where you can contact our team dedicated to matters of this product”

basically it’s a phone designs for military/defense/etc., so they need to be a lil tight lipped.

this was all quite unexpected. might not be able to go for it after all.