I just found out that a new iPhone SE (2022) with 256 GB storage is more expensive than a Fairphone 4 with 256 GB storage.
So if my current iPhone SE 2020 fails me, it is cheaper to buy a Fairphone.
Intriguing.
Edit: An iPhone 12 mini is also more expensive. How did I miss this?
That model doesn’t even support 256 GB. The Fairphone is even expendable. The Storage I mean.
It would mean however, that I will not be able to FaceTime with my mother anymore. She turns 73 this year and doesn’t want to part with my old iPhone SE 2016.
Which video call app does /e/OS have?
It doesn’t have Skype right?
I cannot change the size of the fairphone.
I can change the apps I use.
This would mean that I have to have a look into the possibilities for running some of my more important apps on /e/OS.
No, it’s not that I want to replace my current phone anytime soon. It’s just nice to have a back-up plan. The irony is that I won’t be able to buy a Fairphone when my current phone fails me, because I bank at bunq (mobile first bank), which means I cannot transfer money from one IBAN to another.
Eek, I’m even considering running ‘normal’ Android on a fairphone and I dislike Google.
Then again, I use Youtube ánd Gmail, so what am I complaining about?
Sorry for rambling, but sometimes I can inform myself a bit, so I know what the best choice is for me.
How do I transfer my music and photos from macOS to a Fairphone? How does that work?
I have found this comparison to be useful, but I guess some of you have something against it:
I’m going to visit a store where I can compare the different sizes of phones if I would be able to comfortably use the Fairphone 4.
I can login to my bunq ‘area’ on another phone. I do not have a back-up phone, but I can use someone else’s. I don’t think it’s necessary to have 2 phones. I’m of the opinion that using 1 phone is more sustainable. It has it’s drawbacks of course.
How can you see the maximum capacity of a battery / an accu on a fairphone? On an iPhone you can see in the settings. Does this also work with a fairphone?
How do I know when to replace the battery?
I’d like to replace it before it utterly fails me.
Yes you can monitor the battery ‘health’ but you shouldn’t have a problem for a few years, and even then it will just require charging more frequenently.
That’s just because they released their mini’s after they released the iPhone SE 2020 which is about the same size.
They haven’t discontinued the SE line yet.
A few weeks ago I was in a shop in The Netherlands where they sell Fairphones, but they didn’t had a display model. However, I was able to hold a smartphone that was about as big as the fairphone and I must admit that it wasn’t so big as I thought it was.
Still wondering about single hand uses though. I’d like to eat breakfast while going through an article on my phone. I usually let my phone rest on my little finger while doing that.
I can, and I have reasonably small hands. Though I find it more comfortable to lay my phone on the table while I’m eating, so I don’t often browse on my phone without a free hand to scroll.
Unless you apply way too much force to the touchscreen, it doesn’t really wobble. And even if it does wobble, the camera bump isn’t tall enough for it to cause you many problems. Though with a smaller phone I’d expect the wobble to be worse, because the camera is more likely to have to protrude further.
Fairphone 5 mini +1
I have the Sny Xperia XZ1 Compact: Probably the very last Highend-Smartphone shorter than 130mm. It’s got a Snapdragon 835, and despite of being from 2017, it seems to have nearly the CPU power of a fairphone 4 (Snapdragon 835 vs Snapdragon 750G: tests and benchmarks).
Despite of that, Sony dropped support in September 2019. I managed to install Lineage OS with Android 13, loosing the 940fps slow motion feature of the camera.
I digress, back to the topic: I would LOVE to have a handy Fairphone (instead of a bulky one), and it would be maybe THE ONLY serious smartphone with small size.
Fairphone 5 Mini +5!!! Me, two friends, two family members and a bunch of people with an old SE for example would get it as their “last” phone IMMEDIATELY! Please as you’re reading this, Fairphone, take a heart and don’t just go with the fatter the better trend - it is tiring and so highly unpractical, like an annoying boner in the pocket all the time, it SUCKS!
Was to lazy to find the topic in a forum, as I googled again for “fairphone mini” (which I did every year now) my heart began to bleed in tears again to find no alternative. Again…
Waiting from the S10e, hopefully not forever. The Fairphone 4 is +50% bigger and heavier… 150 VS 225g. Impossible to wear on the body comfortably and epic fail when it falls with a big one accelerating super quickly making it way more likely to have a damage from a few feet. I don’t understand the world with their obsession of bigmacness - you must have done your research on that I’m sure. I keep praying
I hope that the 40k+ people wanting this may be enough for a company to consider making this.
Would it be an idea to work together with https://smallandroidphone.com/ ?
