• FundMECFS@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    Can some investor pour 100 million or something into fairphone so the phones actually become good?

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      3 months ago

      If it’s your average investor, they’ll want a return, which will make fair phone stop being ethical.

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        3 months ago

        Isn’t fair phone a for profit company? If it is, doesn’t change much.

        If it is a non-profit, then that’s even better, lets get some philanthropist on it.

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      3 months ago

      Other than being a bit thick, the Fairphone 5 is actually a very good phone.

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          3 months ago

          Yes. Although I don’t know what you mean with “software comparability”.

          I am still on the stock Android it comes with, which works fine but is still infested with Google stuff. I am not sure about the state of alternative ROMs, but I think it is not bad given how relatively new the hardware is. Personally I plan to switch to PostmarketOS or Mobian once that support matures a bit, but it seems to be almost there now.

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              3 months ago

              I’m also a FP5 user, FP3 before that. Never had any problems whatsoever.

              Used /e/ for a while on FP3, that was mostly fine but some annoyances like the camera being less good. So I switched back to stock android. Might try /e/ again soon though.

              I haven’t had any problems with apps, audio, bluetooth, anything.

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              3 months ago

              Yeah, no problems with Bluetooth and audio here. Wifi reception is probably the best I ever had on a smart-phone.