Looks like a new model for the Fairphone has been announced! What do you think about it?

Personally I love the fairphone project but after having tried GrapheneOS on my Pixel 6a it would be hard to move to a different OS

  • tomatol@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Would be nice if any of these new parts could be used in the older phones. Is that the case?

    After all the Fairphone 4 only came out less than 2 years ago.

    Would be better for Fairphone to focus on some kind of upgradeable platform which is better for the environment than keep making new phones. For now I’ll stick to buying second hand phones whenever mine breaks.

    • BlueBockser@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Tbf, FP4 will still have replacement parts available for years to come. Not as good as having a (potentially indefinite) upgrade path, but FP4 isn’t obsolete.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think this will ever happen, it’s an anomaly unique to the PC market. The first time Fairphone did this with the FP3, allowing users to upgrade their camera, there was some minor OS workaround added to make this work, because the hardware in phones just isn’t set up to handle this.

      IIRC I believe the workaround involved trying to get the installed camera to do something that the old one was not capable of doing, and if that operation failed it would spin up the driver for the upgraded camera. PCs use shared memory and a bunch of other standardised stuff I’m unfamiliar with to simply ask a device what it is, but phones can’t do that for their internals (for the most part)

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        1 year ago

        Well it’s just up to Fairphone to add the right drivers.

        Things like phone screens are such a waste if you think about it. Every phone has a screen built for it’s specific model and it doesn’t have to be like this.