🇬🇧 Interesting links / news articles somehow related to Fairphone

[urs_lesse]

Posted on Instagram apparently around 14:00 Amsterdam time on 10 May, so I’d expect the announcement on thursday around noon:

I guess many here will have an idea what this might be …

[anon9989719]

You mean over the ear headphone, your notes jogged my memory ~ I remember reading some such . .

Fairbuds XL headphones

Here as well:

[urs_lesse]

It’s basically official now. The shop.fairphone.com now has a “Fairbuds XL” category and already offers the first accessory for it:

Fairbuds XL Headphones USB-C - mini jack 3.5mm Cable

P.S.: Definitely still needs a length specification.

[UPPERCASE]

It’s confirmed indeed: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsGUvVUACQe/

[anon9989719]

1.5m

[urs_lesse]

Fairbuds XL headphones

Accessory cable length will be 1.5 metres (source: Fairphone company feedback at https://twitter.com/Fairphone/status/1656665977650835463). Should be added in the product specs soon. [19:00 h: added to the shop page specs]

[Jens1]

(Rückgabequote: rate of giving back)
The Fairphone users have the highest capacity for suffering

Maybe it is just because the phones are repairable.

[Paule]

This video is actually not about Fairphone (sorry!), but it is really interesting to see the tremendous efforts to actually develop a smartphone.

This phone cost $50m+ before it was even made

[HolosericaCaligo]

Now Fairphone is even on the first place

EDIT:
Although the warranty rate and especially the case duration is not that amazing

[UPPERCASE]

Can you also share the link where you took these screenshots from? Thanks.

[HolosericaCaligo]

sure, here: https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/fairphone-4-256-gb-grey-630-sim-esim-48-mpx-5g-smartphone-16218844

[Ingo]

Here’s the video of a ~30min talk Luca Weiss gave at the Free Silicon Conference 2023 called “Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones”

Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones, Luca Weiss, Fairphone

[yvmuell]

Environment - Mother Nature

[Paule]

Is Fairphone really fair?

Are "fair phones" really fair?

[Zebrafax]

What does a sustainable smartphone look like?

[Gert_Korthof]

Today I posted an English and updated version of my previous Dutch blog about how the Dutch consumer organization ‘De Consumentenbond’ evaluated Fairphone:
Dutch consumer organization ‘De Consumentenbond’: iPhone is more sustainable than Fairphone, 30 Nov 2023.

They actually managed to ignore repairability of a phone in their tests!

[UPPERCASE]

Be ready to cringe… It’s laughable how they try make it sound like they are doing a great job.

How Pixel is Designed for Longevity

[Ingo]

I’ve read an article today about what EU legislation is about to change for smartphone manufactures from 2025 onwards. It’s behind a paywall and in German so I did a quick search for some freely available article in English. I actually found the text of the legislation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32023R1670

Look for the chapter on “Operating system updates”

security updates or corrective updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 4 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider or on any other product of the same brand;

functionality updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 6 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same

Emphasis by me. “Functionality updates” are the major Android version upgrades.
So we will see new major versions quicker than before at some point

[Meaghan]

Thanks @Ingo . Does it mention the obligation on the manufacturers to provide these functionality updates in any specific time framework?