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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)
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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I like it a lot but I need two physical SIM slots so it doesn't work for me, unfortunately. But great idea and love the price drop

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 3 months ago

Anyone know what the bootloader unlock process is like for Fairphone? I know they support it, but does it take 7 days like OnePlus or constantly have issues like Motorola?

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[-] Flukas88@feddit.it 3 points 3 months ago

Out of curiosity... how is doing that in 2025?

[-] Srootus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Its fine, I haven't noticed any slowdown yet, the main issue right now is that there was a screen problem that caused the OLED pixels to stay on when a black screen was present. They removed the AoD while they fix it, they've fixed it a few months back, but we still don't have AoD.

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[-] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

I've been meaning to look into PinePhone myself.

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

As an owner of an old pine phone, I can confidently say avoid for now. Not remotely ready or reliable enough.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

The hardware is good and I like the idea in principle but Fairphone's support and software QA is dreadful and you need to hope you never need the former because of problems with the latter. My FP5 was bricked by an update they pushed out and after six weeks of trying to get a solution from their support (four weeks of which they didn't respond at all) I ended up claiming on insurance and buying a Pixel. According to the forums this problem is far from unique to me.

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