This Review is Going to Make Me Very Unpopular [Fairphone 5]
This Review is Going to Make Me Very Unpopular [Fairphone 5]
You're already unpopular, Linus. You swept a workplace sexual harrassment scandal under the rug, were called out for your lack of proper testing, and your data is constantly incorrect.
Source?
The improper testing has plenty of sources. They were trying to speed rush through testing and missed details.
The sexual harassment doesn't have hard sources. It got tossed in there as an afterthought as everyone dog piled him for being popular and the botched testing. No idea if it was really true or not.
By "sweeping it under the rug" what you meant was "ARE NOT PUBLICLY COMMENTING ON POTENTIAL FUTURE LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST THE COMPANY."
It really seems like a lot of the anti-Linus crowd gives way more of a shit about it than the actual victim, which is about par for the course with anything involving LTT.
Wish people had the kind of energy for shitting on actual horrid companies that they do for this one.
You're down-voted quite a bit, but I agree, and I'll die on this hill with you.
I noticed the decline in quality and usefulness of his videos for me, personally. I was very disappointed at the path he took when Gamers Nexus called him out for shitty testing.
In the grand scheme of things, there're way worse people and companies in the world, and I don't think he should be cancelled after that fiasco.
The vitriol against LTT is beyond ridiculous, and from what I've seen, there's no substance in the alleged sexual harassment. I'm open to any links showing otherwise, but I've seen precisely zilch that's concrete.
He's had some horrible takes and I don't watch a lot of his videos anymore. But he and his employees are not the SS.
Are you Linus or do you work there...
Bootlicker?
Aint that guy a shill?
That was my first thought. Then the video starts with, we got these phones last summer and they are prototypes...well, I don't think I have to hear anything else. Maybe his integrity issues stalled the release of the video. If that's the case, just throw away the review and wait until you can do a production unit.
Something like half the comments on that video are about his facial hair.
He actually said that it was a late prototype, then went on to list the things fairphone said had changed between his unit and the final product.
Then added that nothing he experienced should've been impacted by the slight changes they made.
Linus is many things, but I never saw him "shill" for anything that wasn't clearly labeled as such.
I like it when youtubers use thumbnails that scream "this is crap, don't watch". So many use them, too. Thanks.
Please don't promote this prick anymore!
I agree with the review here, I've always found the mission of fairphone exciting and noble, but the specs...always left me with a meh feeling.
"It's a fairphone, not a great phone"
"They overshot the mark and made too many compromises" - 100% agree with this line
I'll still hop to Fairphone after my current phone dies. I would miss a great camera the most but a decent camera is still a decent camera. At least I'm the boss over my own phone, I'm so fed up with not being able to swap out parts myself like with a normal desktop.
I'm so fed up with not being able to swap out parts myself like with a normal desktop.
Meh, most phones (except iPhones) aren't really that difficult to swap a battery out or something. The easy removable battery is nice, but you can change the battery on any Android phone with a bit of patience, time and heat.
Beyond the battery, the fairphone looks...pretty much the same inside from any other Android I've taken apart, the battery adhesive is the most difficult part once you're inside the phone, everything else is easy. So it's really not worth the performance compromises IMO
For what it's worth, that is where I thought Linus was wrong.
The camera is completely fine. I did the mkbhd camera test for many many samples and fairphone, for me personally, was ranked just below the pixel out of all the phones. Except I think in lowlight where is was 7th or so.
I think compared to their previous phones, the 5 is quite decent as far as cameras. The lack of wireless charging and headphone jack kills it for me though.
I mean I agree on some Points and I too agree its in many ways a overpriced undercooked phone but the Note 5 comparison is absolute nonsense.
I'm the first to recommend second hand flagships but the Note 5 is maybe a fun secondary phone but definitly not daily drivable and recommendig it to people who don't know what they will get themselfes into is criminal.
Like just the fact that he implies that the Note 5 SoC is comparable in Performance to the Fairphone is braindead. You are comparing a Cortex A57 to a A78. There are 6 generations between them.
Also what are these doofusus in "The Lab" doing. Would it really have been that hard to pull up some common CPU Bound tasks like rendering websites, compressing files, ... . App opening Tests are often limited by Network speeds and IO Speed and tell you very little about the in App Performance.
They just throw out any random shit and people click and watch it. LTTs quality dropped years ago when they got too big. It's about views now, not respectable content.
Methinks y'all doth protest too much.
Damn and here I thought making dumb errors in your reviews and promoting a hostile workplace is what would have made you unpopular.
You have to press the enter key for unlocking... there is no uninstall option on the app menu... what???
You even a real reviewer? All ASOP roms do that.