• disevani@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Honestly, you sound like someone who only cares about actual performance/money. Not a bad thing, but not really fair if you really look at this product.

    Hardware is not comparable to high-end phones (or even some midrange ones) but it was also not meant to be that way. It has to be good enough to last the designed lifespan, which it most certainly will do. Speed hasn’t been a issue for yeaaars, otherwise Samsung and all the others wouldn’t use the same fricking cpu in a lot of their newer generation phones like their previous ones. (Samsung A series, Motorola’s etc.)

    There’s no slowing down whatsoever on my FP6 running e/OS. The only thing that can stop this phone is Google and their fucked up policies.

    You’re also forgetting the - “be as fair as possible to workers”, being repairable with affordable and easy DIY parts, having a non-Google experience right out of the box - parts, which makes the product of bit more expensive.

  • glitzer_gadze@feddit.org
    2·
    9 hours ago

    I bought the fp6 and installed /e/os on it. It’s fast, responsive and the battery lasts two full days. I really like, that i own this thing completly. It’s so nice to unlock the boot loader without losing the varranty. This is btw my first Android ever and i really enjoy the freedom. :) I hope, that i’ll be able to install Ubuntu touch in a few years down the road.

  • mortalic@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 hours ago

    I’ve got a 5 and 6, other than the 5 was chunky, I’ve got no complaints about the hardware.

    • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
      71·
      12 hours ago

      There is no link, this is an image post. Anyway, “No Updates” is interesting when the next post on the community is about the latest software update.

      I’m pretty new to fairphones, so obviously I can’t speak to the longetivity aspect yet. But so far, I’m quite happy with the hardware and performance. Does everything I need it to and with great battery life. Having looked on their store, I also don’t find the spare parts overpriced.

      • Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        11 hours ago

        I can only concur, only thing that is a bit subpar is the camera. I hope there will be an updated camera module, like there was for an earlier model (fp4 i think).

        Btw, after i changed the original OS to eOS i am now getting even better battery life!

        • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
          2·
          11 hours ago

          What helped a lot for me with the camera was installing one of the unofficial GCam ports (BSG). Using that, it takes quite decent photos (with the regular lens, ultrawide is still pretty bad). Only problem is that the live camera view is oddly laggy, both on GCam and the built-in app. Hopefully that can be fixed with a software update at some point.