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Is the fairphone really worth it? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high..

If it's a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

10 years ago the Samsung Galaxz S4 released, let's compare its specs with the current phone

Samsung Galaxzy S4 <> Galaxy S23

Display size: 5" <> 6.1"

Resolutuion: Full HD <> 120hz 2k AMOLED

CPU: 4x1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & 4x1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 <> 1x3.36 GHz Cortex-X3 & 2x2.8 GHz Cortex-A715 & 2x2.8 GHz Cortex-A710 & 3x2.0 GHz Cortex-A510

RAM: 2GB <> 8GB

Storage: 16-64GB <;> 128-512GB

The question is, do you want to run 10 year old hardware even if its software is supported?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Most of that progression was made in the first 5 years, the last 5 years for new phone tech have been a lot slower. I don't know if any spec in the next 5 will really make me want to upgrade, stuff just works atm

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like we reached the stage where any improvements are really just incremental and small, you used to get a massively different experience when upgrading your phone even just a year later in the early days, nowadays you can barely tell the difference between new and 5 year old models.

When we get in that state of a technology, we should definitely be looking at how to make our devices last longer instead of renewing yearly / bi-yearly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When we get in that state of a technology, we should definitely be looking at how to make our devices last longer instead of renewing yearly / bi-yearly.

Won't somebody please think of the ~~children~~ profits?

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