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 had a phone without before, that one came with a simple cheap passive adapter for USB-C to 3.5mm headset. You lose out on using headphones while charging, but other than that I was never really inconvenienced...
I disagree about this being a good solution. USB-C is not meant to take the strain of being used as an audio port when being used in the go so there is risk of damaging the port while a headphone jack is more stable and allows the plug to rotate. Plus I don't want to have a dingle I can forget when in a rush.
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Did some digging, but it doesn't appear the band compatibility with US carriers is improved at all. Am I wrong here?
From their own site it would seem they don't. There is a "US" version but you can't buy a Fairphone from the website directly.
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No earphone jack again. That's a bit sad. Even though I mainly use BLT earbuds, I still sometimes wish I could use my wired headphones. It's just a small inconvenience
I never use wired headphones even though I have a jack in my phone. But I have never bought a phone without a jack and probably never will.
Ipersonally think it's user hostile to remove the jack and also goes directly agains the green profile Fairphone wants to have.
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I posted this elsewhere but the tech specs for the Fairphone 6 say the following:
USB-C 2.0 (OTG capable) can be used to connect USB Sticks/SD-Cards/Audio Amplifier/Network-adapters directly
I was really looking forward to use this with a pair of display glasses, like the XREAL One Pro, but this seems like the Fairphone 6 might not support display output? That's sad. Especially since the Fairphone 5 had this in their tech specs:
USB-C 3.0 (OTG capable) can be used to connect USB Sticks/SD-Cards/display (also Android
desktop mode)/Camera/Audio Amplifier/Network-adapters directlyBut maybe it was not used enough?
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aw man, this is the first i'm hearing about discontinuation. apparently it's because people want larger phones?!
i have a 5 IV and it is by far the largest phone i've ever owned... i wish it was like an inch smaller. but it was the only model i could find that doesn't have a non-rectangular screen. these bloody camera cutouts are everywhere and i never even use the front camera.
The Sony form factor is the best on the market IMO. You can hold it in you hand and get more screen in the height.
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600 euros? That's like 700 USD
Remind me again, wasn't like 80% of the American population on the verge of poverty and homelessness if a 500 USD emergency happened?
Who's benefiting from this?
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Degoogled version is €50 more, for whatever reason
People don’t want to pay for privacy. That’s the real problem with end users. Imagine if more people did so. What a world we could have. Nah. Let’s be cheap AF!
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600 euros? That's like 700 USD
Remind me again, wasn't like 80% of the American population on the verge of poverty and homelessness if a 500 USD emergency happened?
Who's benefiting from this?
Ethically sourced, fair wages to workers, etc. Makes you wonder what a factory worker in china makes to allow for cheaper phones.
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600 euros? That's like 700 USD
Remind me again, wasn't like 80% of the American population on the verge of poverty and homelessness if a 500 USD emergency happened?
Who's benefiting from this?
They are hardly even in the US market. Only via Murena with their e/OS/.
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Interesting that they seem to be using a consumer grade Snapdragon chip this time, typically they used weird chips ment for industry applications if I'm not mistaken. Wonder what sparked the change, did Qualcomm start supporting their chips for longer?
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600 euros? That's like 700 USD
Remind me again, wasn't like 80% of the American population on the verge of poverty and homelessness if a 500 USD emergency happened?
Who's benefiting from this?
Who in the US is buying midrange or flagship phones without a loan?
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600 euros? That's like 700 USD
Remind me again, wasn't like 80% of the American population on the verge of poverty and homelessness if a 500 USD emergency happened?
Who's benefiting from this?
Ooo they sell these in the US?
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It's too bad they dont ship to Canada. I'm in the market for a new phone and would seriously consider this.
Same US. EU gets the best stuff.
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I want my photos to be grainy, with natural lens distortion, instead of current trend of pictures being shouty to look good on social media
You can shoot RAW on your phone today.
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Fuck these guys... Seriously. I bought a phone off of them hyped at the idea of the ethics. It didn't work on arrival. Over 3 months later and not one single reply to my helpdesk request (other than the Automated acknowledgement of receipt).
Unbelievably bad user experience, I went from hyped at the concept of reducing my production of electronic waste to beyond disappointed at a brutally bad user experience.
Then to make matters worse, it is difficult to source spare parts for the fairphone 4 (according to a friend of mine who owns one that he bought a while ago)... Like is that not the entire point of the phone, reduced consumption of new phones by supporting repairs. If you're going to stop producing the spares at least release the patents then.. if you really believe in the promoted ideals that you spout... Which they clearly do not.
It turns out that it's just another money hungry company hell bent on burning the planet down to see a line go up, as far as I'm concerned. All gaff to sell shite phones at higher prices.
Do not buy.
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I've never had one of those actually work...
The sound quality on them blows no matter which you get.
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3.5mm Jack or - sadly - GTFO
They have adapters. But yeah, would be nice to have a slot directly integrated.
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Fuck these guys... Seriously. I bought a phone off of them hyped at the idea of the ethics. It didn't work on arrival. Over 3 months later and not one single reply to my helpdesk request (other than the Automated acknowledgement of receipt).
Unbelievably bad user experience, I went from hyped at the concept of reducing my production of electronic waste to beyond disappointed at a brutally bad user experience.
Then to make matters worse, it is difficult to source spare parts for the fairphone 4 (according to a friend of mine who owns one that he bought a while ago)... Like is that not the entire point of the phone, reduced consumption of new phones by supporting repairs. If you're going to stop producing the spares at least release the patents then.. if you really believe in the promoted ideals that you spout... Which they clearly do not.
It turns out that it's just another money hungry company hell bent on burning the planet down to see a line go up, as far as I'm concerned. All gaff to sell shite phones at higher prices.
Do not buy.
All I needed to know was when they released their BT earbuds just when the jack port got removed to figure out where their priorities are.
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Interesting that they seem to be using a consumer grade Snapdragon chip this time, typically they used weird chips ment for industry applications if I'm not mistaken. Wonder what sparked the change, did Qualcomm start supporting their chips for longer?
Probably yes.
And probably due to EU mandating new phones to be supported for longer.
https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en
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People don’t want to pay for privacy. That’s the real problem with end users. Imagine if more people did so. What a world we could have. Nah. Let’s be cheap AF!
Locking privacy behind a paywall? Sounds like a nightmare.
That’s the real problem with end users.
The real problem with end users is that they buy according to whatever needs corpos inject via advertising.
