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Measuring is better than estimating :sunglasses:

  • I bought my Fairphone because it is fair
  • I bought my Fairphone because it is repairable
  • Something in between
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What about “both”? :sweat_smile: I came to Fairphone because it does exploit people who contribute to the manufacture of phones much less AND at the same time gives me more sovereignty over my own phone (incl. reparibibilty but also to free myself from Google et al).

Disclaimer:

And no… “both” does not equal “in between” IMO. :see_no_evil: At best “in between” means “I do not care about any of that entirely, maybe a little bit”

But others seem to be OK with this odd definition (both==between), so who am I to bother. :+1:

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Its missing a few reasons I think: I bought my Fairphone beacuse I can easily unlock the bootloader and install other ROMs; I bought my Fairphone because of privacy reasons (at least thats mentioned quite often in my eyes and it might go hand in hand with my first point).
You could also define or even seperate the fair aspect more towards fair to those producing and fair to the environment.

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Repairable is my main motive. I’ve been going through USB ports like there’s no tomorrow on my last five phones, and now at least I can replace them (and help others with their little FP problems)

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“both” ∈ “something in beetween”!? :sunglasses:

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The current version of Android is 15. Fairphone 4 still doesn’t have 14. Your hardware is good but I don’t think you can claim that you’re not compromising product quality if you’re not also paying attention to the software side.

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“I bought it for the warranty” is what I would have picked, personally.

Not needing a phd in quantum physics to replace the battery is a close second.

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Totally because it is repairable, meaning a lower TCO. Fairness is only a nice to have and does not figure in the end when it comes to buying. The openness and modifyability of the platform, however, is a major factor, and this is something which I feel FairPhone has been neglecting a bit. It would be nice to get the drivers to enable running any OS on the FP5, since it uses a IoT SoC. I would love to be able to step away from the Android ecosystem alltogether. Right now allmost all alternatives still tie you in with the Android ecosystem. I would love to see an official port of SailfishOS to the FP5.

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Just received an email from FairPhone saying: “With the brand revamp, we have done just that. And from what we are seeing online, everyone agrees.”
Do they even bother checking their own forum to see what their community actually thinks?

The last email only confirms that this is just rebranding for the sake of rebranding, without any real purpose. It’s pure greenwashing at its finest.

I’m so annoyed by all of this, and wanted to share it.

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They simply don’t care …

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I can’t disprove that but it would be stupid because at some point they also rely on customer recommendation and therefore on their satisfaction.

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Free speech means being free to speak. No restrictions, no matter how wrong you think they are. The way it works is if you think someone is wrong, you use the free speech you have to say so.

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I care about having replaceable components, especially including screen, battery, USB port, and headphone jack.

Because if you can’t fix the hardware and don’t control the software, do you really own it? Why should you not be able to do whatever you want with a device you paid for?

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They’ve literally disabled the comments from this thread from showing on their website. If you check the other blog posts, there are comments. On this thread, there ain’t.

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Well, there used to be the comments from this thread, but it showed the comment with the most thumbs up on top which was this one:

When I checked that page again the comments were disabled, indeed… :roll_eyes:
So they are reading the comments, it seems :wink:

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Because e.g. there are rules and laws that not everybody is allowed to build radio devices on its own.

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So, the fact that there are laws about radio devices means we shouldn’t be allowed to have user replaceable batteries, screens, connectors, and should have no control over what apps are preinstalled, even if they’re spying on you?

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I don’t own a device if I can just replace modules.

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You can open the modules. And the design is becoming more and more back to spare pieces instead of modules…

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Yes. FP produces the most open mobile phone hardware.

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