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
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.
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.
Another missed opportunity to bring back the headphone jack.
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.
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?
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 then 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.