• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I like the fairphone idea, I really do, and I realize that maintaining the fairphone ecosystem is expensive… But! 550€ on sale for a 128GB storage and 6GB RAM phone? GTFO. Update promises are great, but a small company promising 7 years? I hope that the fairphone company survives that long, and even longer, but I wouldn’t be basing my phone purchase on that promise.

    For my usage I can get comparable phones for the same cost per day, but with less of an initial investment, and without the risk of time.

    • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      This phone looks like a bad bargain because all the other ones use what amounts to slavery for their production. I would say this is the actual approximation of a fair market price and all the other manufacturers are cheating.

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      2 months ago

      You don’t buy a Fairphone because of specs, you do because you care about workers conditions and the environment. Also, FPs support third party OSes that provide updates for years

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      2 months ago

      Also while they’re repairable and they have that going for them, Google also promises 7 years of updates, so they’re not even unique on that selling point.