• Southern Wolf@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Fairphone brings a much better device to market with better cameras, a better screen, likely a better chip, open hardware specifications and modularity, a completely unlockable bootloader (with likely support for CalyxOS and other ROM’s shortly), and up to 8 years of software support(!), but people say they won’t get it because no headphone jack…

    MFW people have their priorities extremely mixed up… That’s been the world now for 6 years, it’s time to get over it. Letting perfect be the enemy of good is how you decide to throwaway something as good as what Fairphone seems to be offering. Sony still offers Android devices with headphone jacks, just don’t be upset if you don’t get another Android version pushed to your device.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s not available in my region. But, if it was, I would consider getting it. Snapdragon 778 level performance should be sufficient for most people.

      • Southern Wolf@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I hope the FP5 will come to the US officially too. I know the FP4 could work here, but it apparently did have issues with a carrier or two, or something.

        Hopefully the 5 will bring true support for US markets.

      • Another Person @lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        For me it’s the camera. If the best camera I have is the one with me then the one with me is going to be the best I can buy (within reason) if they could get Samsung or Pixel quality (or iPhone I guess) that would be awesome.

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          1 year ago

          Iphone and samsung did not get their camera chops in months. It took years. Fairphone would take a similar amount of time to reach that. But, yeah, i agree a good camera would be great.

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      1 year ago

      Ye but I want a god damn head phone jack.