The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years
The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years
With five major OS ugrades and eight years of patches.
Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.
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The FairPhone 4 had a screen brightness bug that made the phone (mostly) unusable outside in the sun that lasted from Feb 2023 to Oct 2023.
Since the Android 12 update, the FP4 has a cooling feature that reduces the maximum brightness even when the slider is all the way to the right.
This occurs when the phone heats up to ~40 degrees at the CPU, which is not a lot at all.
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/random-screen-dimming-while-brightness-slider-stays-at-100-after-a12-update/93195They will have to work very hard to make me consider buying my next phone from them.
They do seem to listen to their users and learn from their mistakes though - FP4 was often criticized for the short firmware support offered from Qualcomm. FP5 will have Qualcomm's extended firmware support for its SoC.
https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Press_release_Fairphone_5.pdfFairphone 4 running lineageos, have never had this happen :/
Yeah, running custom roms means you wouldn't have been affected.
Fair enough, thankfully a software issue then ^^