I tried the new Fairphone, a phone designed to be repaired

Posted by vismit2000 1 day ago

Comments

Comment by d3Xt3r 14 hours ago

Too bad that the OS isn't designed to be repaired. It would've been nice if they could partner up with postmarketOS or similar and ship a proper Linux distro, so we're free to customise/build/update/replace parts of the OS.

Comment by sombragris 17 hours ago

A big letdown for me is the lack of a headphone jack.

Comment by lazzurs 1 day ago

If this came with GrapheneOS and had the updates on time I'd buy in a heartbeat.

Comment by neobrain 1 day ago

Obviously not ideal, but update latency is much better with other third party distributions like iodéOS or CalyxOS.

At least in contrast to other vendors, FP provides official support for microG, so this has been without noticeable loss of stability/quality for my use cases so far.

Comment by altern8 1 day ago

That's a big phone...

Comment by bcraven 1 day ago

You can complain phone sizes here:

https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=14883&idPhone2=...

Comment by altern8 1 day ago

Yes, it's big. Right now I have a Google Pixel, and I find it way too big already: https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=14883&idPhone2=...

Comment by ktallett 1 day ago

The issue I found was that you couldn't replace every single part of the phone, and also they never did the actual upgrade components that was promised. Instead just making more phones which in my view goes against the point.