What does a sustainable smartphone look like?
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In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    This is not true because you need to upgrade your software and patch it to keep it secure, and old hardware does not like newer os versions. Your phone will run more slowly if the os is newer (i believe that’s planned obsolescence in action, though)

    I appreciate that the hardware is still good enough functionally, but only if you want a less secure phone.

    • Captain AggravatedEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      You can install current day Linux Mint on PCs from the Core 2 era, ~15 years old, and it runs like brand new. OS bloat is not inevitable, it is a result of greed.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      That’s the fault of the manufacturers. Google does their best to mitigate this but the unfortunate reality is that when Qualcomm drops support you’re going to stop getting updates.

      There are efforts to get these phones supported within Linux. When that happens they can just run forever.

      • brisk@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        My Galaxy S2 actually had more updates than it could handle. While the last useful update had already slowed down the phone somewhat, the last available update was actually completely uninstallable - the portion of Google play services that was required to be installed on the system memory was larger than the entire system memory.

        I more than doubled the useful life of that phone by switching to LineageOS / microG.

        Chip support is definitely an issue with these devices, but it’s Google that’s running the treadmill.

    • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      old hardware does not like newer os versions

      You got that ass-backwards.

      that’s planned obsolescence

      There ya go.

      • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yours is a bit of a redundant comment, then right?

        In the context of what i was replying to, it made more sense to say the hardware had a problem with the software.

        It’s technically true either way, though

        But yes, it would have made more sense to say the software doesn’t play ball with the old hardware.

        But since it’s intended to be like that, it doesn’t really matter how i say it. The point still gets across.