INFO!!! fairphone DOES SUPPORT CUSTOM ROMS!!!
i like the idea of a fairphone. i dun wana buy one tho - if it doesn hav the features i need/wan.
if fairphone had all dis stuff - it would hav a genuine moat, besides the sustainability stff-
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My main issue with the Fairphone is price. Kinda expensive, innit? I mean, I don’t know how much is too much when it comes to prices. When I got my current phone, company I was working at at the time gave me 200 monies discount on a phone at a select online platform / store. So mine, slightly above 200, came out almost free of charge on my end. And 200 was also the price my dad advised my sister looking into for a new phone. So when I decided “let me peek that Fairphone”, it’s like, damn. 500? 600? (I don’t remember the price, but I think it was something like that).
Maybe it pays for itself in the long run, if it indeed lasts longer (assuming you don’t upgrade needlessly)
500 for a phone you can use for 6-8 years is more than enough. Fairphone is going to fail because nobody is financially literate enough to realise how better off they’ll be. Even more so when a screen breaks or the charging port stops working.
Ps been using resolable boots for years, I have the same chef knife for ten years, a cast iron pan for 15y. My motto is to always buy the product that is going to save me money in the long term, not until the next paycheck
It is also way more expensive because they pay a decent wage to the factory workers and use more environmently friendly methods of extracting materials.
Yeah, I can see that. Sucks that the best stuff usually costs more, whereas the cheap garbage* tends to be… well… cheaper.
Well, phones used to be max 300€ in 2017-18. Now they’re min 300 to be actually usable in ~5 years. So the actual reason is as always capitalism (and slight inflation).
I would like a lower end option from them, but even that would probably be more expensive than normal because they’re not a huge company and aren’t squeezing margins on assembly and supply for ethical reasons.