Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage - Liliputing
Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage - Liliputing
Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage
looks way over priced for a mid range spec of a 2021 era hardware in both old and new devices that you'd pay £200 or less for back then but all it is is 2gb ram extra same type of ddr standard added on and only then 256gb compared to 128gb is thexdifference a sd card can be bought and used adopted storage method to go way beyond or equal to the difference for practically $4-10 so neither phone from fairphone is fair priced being as they are being priced up at $500-600 it's 100% out of normal realms of common sense to buy it, they simply just won't buy it in the numbers then to keep the comoany afloat because the pricing is ultra over inflated, it's old spec standard hardware trying to be upsold for triple it's retail value
For some kind of logical alternative product slightly less spec but half decent for that era's hardware then a moto g range device a g10 and upward should be comparable bit slower half the ram at 3gb but some are much higher and the g10 new was just £120 delivered back in 2021 with a 8 core soc by snapdragon, so throwing weight in the product being worth triple that you'd expect about 9gb ram if that were a thing 256gb storage and a newer 3x faster chipset at triple that price it is £360 so you can imagine the shock at fairphone's costing nearly twice that tben they should be 6x faster and 12gb ram physical ram not virtual as well, the camera a 108mp or higher etc etc the specs do not justify the cost never will even halving it
The idea behind the fairphone is that it's made fairly. It looks overpriced because they're paying a fair price for the raw materials + production costs. If other companies didn't exploit third world countries their phones would be priced similarly to fair phone.
You don't buy fair phone for the specs, you buy it so you can be certain some child in south Africa didn't have crawl in a mine to get the the metals that go into phones, or have a child sit in a factory putting together the chips that go into phones. Or you buy it because you don't want to throw your phone away after 3 years because you couldn't replace the battery or the screen or the charging port.
I say to all manufacturers and developers just get one OS and stick with it, and then there is no further e-waste if it's cross compatible from a dual core spec hardware upward it just runs faster the higher spec you go, there will be no hardware or OS incompatability just an ever improving OS one fits all old and new.
All fairphone are going to do is become e-waste just with a smaller footprint than the rest but e-waste none the less, I do not see them surviving long either.
There's a far easier way make just make a fair OS it costs nothing extra if ithe OS is running on a backbone of the low cost devices at say dual core as a baseline to any spec above for higher speeds, you never then have to worry what phone you build because the OS runs on them all a bit like linux without the caveat of aging out in 3-5yrs.
You don't ever have to look the b@llocks just so you end up being plain b@llocks becauee your draining off every resource to beautify the OS and add none essential features, you could choose to install none essential apps or features and individual updates to add features later without needing sh@t loads of background processes to run in the native OS, included on purchase of a device you just start with a generally cross compatible basic spec OS and keep that base foundation forever it updates only through a open source app store which if needed will request to allow the installation of specific elements that certain apps require to install and the feature addons that embed in the OS are also in the store in a section dedicated to this, and their accompanying app to use anything of these features are linked to that section or placeholder assigned in the storefront.thus nothing ever dies from being incompatible or to old ever again or from any forcable update requirement, people are left happily building and catering to all the specs and brands of device as axwhole and indefinitely/forever litterally. Not singling out devices to cater for just so comlanies can force recurring purchases from the publoc of the new necissary hardware, it's a matter of software throat ramming to sell hardware by forcing updates to the hardware and binding that hardware specific list (database of devices) to the store/s and software in a stores compatibility list. It's simply "Double Dipping And Manipulation" that's basically what I call it for software and hardware or DAM for short lol said like "DAM!!!" (aka damn missing the letter "n" at the end) basically I mean you get shafted as your device unescissarily ages out of the stores due to deliberate phase out of the OS and hardware totally unescissarily etc lol
But the idea behind fair for the production is good, it's simply not going to really appeal to anyone much except for those who are dedicated to saving the planet with a phat wallet or purse. Not to any large marketable community with enough members to keep it afloat for long or is that just the whole idea here?
They'll likely end up e-waste like everything else that's forcably aged out of relevance to turn a buck and just add to the sh@t that's poisoning the planet again in some smaller way than the rest but none the less doing so in a similar way with a smaller footprint that's all.
Another missed opportunity to bring back the headphone jack.
Personally, I don't see a problem with this as 128 gigs of storage is fine for me on a phone. In fact, I currently have a 64 gigabyte phone and I'm not using all of it, even now.
Good it exists, for people like you.
Once the OS stopped letting me use my SD card with my phone, by 256GB internal storage has not been enough for me, I've had to remove some stuff I'd prefer to have on my phone off it.
the solution to that is wanting back normal sd card support. I'll never buy a phone without it, and I'm not just saying it. I need the removable storage that is not a USB stick but something inside of the phone, and I think this is a basic thing. it's a shame though that in the fairphones you can only access it after getting out the battery.
Yeah, same here but like another commenter pointed out... some people need the fucking space.
Which is cool, let them pay the margin on the product.
A bit toxic but that's how market is supposed to work.
I was curious and checked, i need 91 gigs right now, and i'm pretty sure i can easily deal with 64 if i would just unload and delete all the junk that is sitting on my phone for no reason.
Since the memory and storage are soldered to the mainboard though, and that’s one of the few components that’s not sold separately, there’s no official support for turning a 6GB/128GB Fairphone into an 8GB/256GB model though.
Cant they just sell a replacement mainboard like Framework?
One day if they can survive it and they are a good faith actor.
What is their selling point? vis-a-vis graphene and calyx besides, a normie can buy it and use out of the box.
the Fairphone 5 has sold for €699 and up since it launched last summer, making it kind of pricey for a device with mid-range specs.Now the company has dropped the price to €629 and introduced a new €549 model for customers willing to sacrifice a little memory and storage.
both phones have a microSD card reader. So you're paying €150 more for just 2 more gb of RAM?
That 2gb can make the difference between apps being reloaded or not. 6GB is the barely minimum if you use your phone more than just a phone. In a few years 8GB will be the new minimum.
No, you're also paying for an extra 128 GB of onboard storage. The onboard storage is faster than an SD card and can run applications.
The Fairphone isn't a good deal price wise. That's not what it is marketed as in the least.
I looking for a simple and very user friendly phone for my 74yo father in law. Would this be a good option?