Well, I kinda agree with you. I like Fairphone, what they do, why they do it and the products they sell, that is why I bought one. But when you enter a community and a company like this, in fact you are more critic with everything because you hope to receive fairness, transparency, long-lasting products… you don’t buy a Fairphone due to its specs or its design, you buy it to have a decent smartphone for some years, you buy it to be fair with those who make it possible to get it to you, etc. Do they do it? yes… and no. From my perspective if you want a phone to survive over time (I said this already), it needs a good SoC and consistent security and system updates. I know we can be happy if our smartphone isn’t the fastest or if we can’t play all the games we want, that’s not the point.
For example, the company with the fruit as its logo made a phone for 500€ that isn’t the best, but they put on it the top CPU they have for it to last, see what I mean? I know they aim also for people with less resources who don’t care about games, updates or multimedia content because they’re phone is just a tool for them, but as sad as it may sound, in this world if you are a smartphone company (even one like this) and you want to spread a message like Fairphone does, you need to get to people, a lot of people, and for that you need what I said.
Again, I am happy with my Fairphone besides some problems I have with it and besides considering myself an Android “power user”, but this is my opinion, if I explained myself as intended.
Opinions on this @Antoine , @Ingo , @Alex.A and @urs_lesse? I’m quite new here so I am glad to hear opinions from more experienced people of this comunnity. Maybe I sould open another thread for this.