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  3. Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts

Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts

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    I really respect Fairphone and I'm a happy owner of the Fairphone 5, but I find a bit puzzling for a company that suggests its customer should keep their phone for more than the 2.5 years average to release a new model just 2 years after the previous one.

    Just my two cents, but they shoul've focused on developing either a tablet or a smartwatch to fill a gap in other markets before announcing yet another smartphone.

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      I don't follow? If you mean simplicity in terms of ease of use you might as well use BT headphones as you don't have to worry about any wire management. Ease of use is the main reason BT headphones are the go to for most people. No carefully packing the wires so it won't break, no accidental wiring mess or anything wire related. You just turn them on (which for most in-ear ones just means taking them out of the case), stick them to your ear and you're good to go.

      If you meant anything else by simplicity you need to expand that idea.

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      I never have to charge my wired headphones.

      Nor do I have to buy new batteries or new headphones when they die.

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        People who want a headphone jack [...] are unfortunately a very tiny minority of the entire population.

        People interested in paying more for fair trade materials and repairable phones are also a very tiny minority of the entire population.
        Of course I don't have any statistic, but I would guess that the proportion of people wanting a Jack is significantly higher in the group of people interested in buying Fairphone that on the general population.

        In my particular case, I'm still using my Fairphone 3, and I'm not buying a Fairphone again unless it has a Jack.

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        Like I've said before- their market is small enough they should be trying to get everyone they can to buy it.

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          dang, I just bought FP5.

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          thanks for your sacrifice

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          • occhioverde@feddit.itO [email protected]

            I really respect Fairphone and I'm a happy owner of the Fairphone 5, but I find a bit puzzling for a company that suggests its customer should keep their phone for more than the 2.5 years average to release a new model just 2 years after the previous one.

            Just my two cents, but they shoul've focused on developing either a tablet or a smartwatch to fill a gap in other markets before announcing yet another smartphone.

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            New people enter the market all the time.

            That update is for those that don't already have a Fairphone, presumably.

            That said, I agree with your overall point. They should offer tablets and watches if they can.

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              People who want a headphone jack [...] are unfortunately a very tiny minority of the entire population.

              People interested in paying more for fair trade materials and repairable phones are also a very tiny minority of the entire population.
              Of course I don't have any statistic, but I would guess that the proportion of people wanting a Jack is significantly higher in the group of people interested in buying Fairphone that on the general population.

              In my particular case, I'm still using my Fairphone 3, and I'm not buying a Fairphone again unless it has a Jack.

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              Just out of interest, because I too love the jack, then what are you buying in the future?

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              • occhioverde@feddit.itO [email protected]

                I really respect Fairphone and I'm a happy owner of the Fairphone 5, but I find a bit puzzling for a company that suggests its customer should keep their phone for more than the 2.5 years average to release a new model just 2 years after the previous one.

                Just my two cents, but they shoul've focused on developing either a tablet or a smartwatch to fill a gap in other markets before announcing yet another smartphone.

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                You don't have to buy a new fair phone just because you bought the last one.

                It's doubtful that someone buying a new phone now would want to buy the fair phone from 2+ years ago.

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                  Good, I only want to pay for the parts that don't send my data to Google and their partners.

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                  So a "phone" without any ability to connect to mobile networks or to WiFi?

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                    I really respect Fairphone and I'm a happy owner of the Fairphone 5, but I find a bit puzzling for a company that suggests its customer should keep their phone for more than the 2.5 years average to release a new model just 2 years after the previous one.

                    Just my two cents, but they shoul've focused on developing either a tablet or a smartwatch to fill a gap in other markets before announcing yet another smartphone.

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                    If they didn't buy a previous fairphone, you're going to miss all the people who wanted to try it but didn't want a 5 year old phone tech. I imagine most people replace around 3-5 years due to battery degradation, people dropping their phones, or lack of updates

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                      happy cake day!!

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                      Thank you!

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                        I never have to charge my wired headphones.

                        Nor do I have to buy new batteries or new headphones when they die.

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                        Fair enough, feel free to buy USB-C headphones then.

                        Edit: Time for the real reply.

                        I never have to charge my wired headphone.

                        But you still have to charge your phone. When I charge my phone I also charge my headphones. Most wireless headphones notify you in advance when they're running low, in my experience enough in advance to not run out before charging again. And finally, charging even once a day is still less overhead than having to manage wires every single time you use the headphones.

                        Nor do I have to buy new batteries or new headphones when they die

                        Yeah, you only buy new headphones when the wire gets damaged because that one time you didn't take good enough care of the wire. I personally had to buy a new set of headphones every year because I'm bad with wires. I'd either store them poorly because I was in a hurry or they'd get stuck on something and get yanked. My first BT headphones lasted me 5 years before starting to have noticeable battery issues and then I still used them for another 3 years before the battery was so dead it wouldn't live my daily commute.

                        overall my response boils down to "just use wired then" because the arguments are silly personal preference arguments and the wider consumer market has already decided that wireless is better. But if you want wired nothing is stopping you from getting USB-C wired headphones.

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                          Are you a Republican? Because that really sounds like "mine works, so fuck everyone else"

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                          Are you a murican? Cuz you really sound like USA is your whole world.

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                            Parts being available doesn't necessarily mean they're being manufactured. It just means there is unsold stock.

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                            So they should overproduce just in case? All I care about as a consumer is that I can buy replacement parts.

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                              vpn is on the right, yeah. but this is with just one sim:

                              with two i get another signal strength and wifi calling symbol. it's already collapsing them when not on the quick setting screen, which is very frustrating.

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                              FYI, you can disable the icons you don't want/need using (https://github.com/zacharee/Tweaker). Although that doesn't solve the actual problem...

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                                If they are all about swappable parts, and being able to upgrade your phone how you want ... Shouldn't this just be a module upgrade... Of the main part? Maybe I don't understand it ... At the very least the old parts should work with the new system right? Unless something major has changed.

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                                Exactly. Framework does it correctly; fairphone does not.

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                                  Parts being available doesn't necessarily mean they're being manufactured. It just means there is unsold stock.

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                                  they are beeing manufactored. The battery is avaible again at the end of june. That means that it got produced in the last months.

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                                    dang, I just bought FP5.

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                                    Think of it as a generous donation 😉

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                                      I dont understand Fairphone, flashy hardware with poor software security and awful sustainability (they stop selling parts quickly).

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                                      Use Calyx OS and re-lock the bootloader.

                                      they stop selling parts quickly

                                      The new EU regulations should force them to keep parts available.

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                                        So a "phone" without any ability to connect to mobile networks or to WiFi?

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                                        Yeah lol.

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                                          So... they chose to make a very Pixel-specific OS and you're mad at Fairphone?

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                                          It's not about being pixel specific. They built high security OS that uses HW components to deliver that high security. It can't be delivered without them. These components are not google patented nor does GrapheneOS demands they use the exact pixel ones. GrapheneOS just refuses to lower security to support phones that lack these components, because manufacturers wanted to save maybe a $1 per phone by not including them at the expense of user security.

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