The review is a bit late, but it’s fairly detailed and informative.
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I really love the idea of the Fairphone, but I just can’t bring myself to deal with the CPU downgrade for them generally.
Unless you are a mobile gamer there is no reason for such overpowered CPUs, in most cases they are just there because higher numbers sell better!
This has not been my experience. I can usually tell when my phone bogs down loading an intense website or switching between 3 apps after a couple years. If I want my phone to last a long time and I want to enjoy using it I’ve found that it’s best to start with a device that is as powerful as possible.
That’s usually a combination of planned obsolesence and bad software, Smasung flagships for example start to significantly slow down after roughly a year of usage. These CPUs are more than enough for daily tasks like web browsing and as soon as you have a manufacturer with good software support or load something like LineageOS on the device it usually works very well again, in some cases you also need a new battery because many clock down once that looses capacity.
We’re gonna have to agree to disagree then. I don’t play games and currently use a Pixel 6 Pro. I occasionally feel this phone bog down and I am not a particularly heavy user. If I’m loading an intense website while streaming music and then I go to check my email I can see a few frames dropped from its 120Hz refresh rate. If I experience this with a flagship a couple of years old, I can’t image the Fairphone would fare any better
Do you use the default Android install or aomething like LineageOS, Callyx or /e/OS? I use a Oneplus 6 with LineageOS and the slowdown dose exist but it’s barely noticable.
Default install and I no longer enjoy tinkering with a device I rely on so heavily these days. I am sensitive to things slowing down and I tend to find combinations that cause them pretty often.
Running FP4 myself, bought bit less than a year ago. If I can get it last significantly longer than phones usually do, I get another one. If not, I have to come up with something else.
No complaints so far but I do all the fancy stuff on PC so I don’t need much from my phone. Remains to be seen if it’s worth it.
Why is it so overpriced and expensive in Vietnam? Is it really worth spending money equal to a new iPhone on this?..
No. The product sucks
Oh, I see. Was wondering what all the fuss is about. Originally I assumed it was a budget (but maybe quality) Android alternative to something like Samsung, so the price surprised me.
It’s going to be a continuation of their previous products. It’s just greenwashing through and through. Their update guarantees are worthless, because they don’t invest in fixing any of their annoying bugs. I have a FP4 and Android Auto is still broken as fuck. Within the 2 years I had it, they didn’t release a single fix in that area.
The fingerprint sensor is a piece of garbage that fails constantly and gets stuck in “clean sensor” faults until you reboot the phone. Also not fixed in its entire life time so far.
It’s great that you can replace parts, but even with all parts new it’s a garbage phone. Maybe they can’t even fix these things, because they used inferior hardware where they don’t even have control over the problematic behavior.
They continue to release new garbage to the market and they really do not give a single fuck about the quality of the products they already released to market. They just don’t have any good products. Sure there are people who claim “it works for me”, but the bugs are real and so is the poor customer care of this company. Stay away as far as possible. You’re being scammed.
Thank you for sharing your real thoughts and being straightforward. Very educational. Appreciated. Not many people here have the balls to say the hard truth, for whatever reason.
Takes out battery to insert SIM and SDcard, is this 2012?
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Android has supported hotswapping SIM cards and microSD cards for over a decade
You don’t have to remove those doesn’t mean everyone else want. Beside, LG G3/4 already have the ability to hotswap sim/sd card and still offer a removable battery. This is just outdated design choice
