I love modern phone cameras. My Pixel 10 pro takes pretty amazing pics and I’m on geaphene so I don’t worry about being watched. I do miss headphone jacks. I’ve been thinking about getting a portable DAC/amp and going back to wired headphones but I’m already carrying 2 devices because of my diabeetus, and I’m likely going to have a work phone soon as well.
What about telecommunication companies conspiring with phone developers to force communication into the different buckets of data, voice, and text and then charge us for each?
This reminds me when cellphone companies used to charge for sms sent lmao
Forced age attestation on unlock. Camera always on.
I lowkey kinda wish Fairphone would make a new phone that has an aux port for the craic. And an FM radio built in too. Use the aux port as an antenna like how older phones did before they stopped doing it.
I hate when people take away the freedom that people already have and claim it’s in the name of improvement. This applies in technology or anything.
Something I “love” about my current phone is it has like a 60gb hard drive. This could hold all of the photos I will ever take for the rest of my life. But it keeps trying to put them on the cloud, and then it complains that I’m running out of space because my free 5 gigs on the cloud are full. I never wanted to save anything to the cloud in the first place… just save them into my phone… this is fucking stupid.
Pardon me, we’d like to spy on you, but space is expensive, could you possibly be willing to pay for us to look through your photos?
Microsoft onedrive is the same shit. Don’t you want to keep backups? It literally costs us pennies, how about $100 a year?
I have a headphone jack. Maybe you just have a peasant phone.
I wonder what the new XCover FR, which is assumed to be in development, will be like
Anyone got experience with the latest Fairphones, whether they are as glitchy as some report?I have the FP6+, currently running iodeos and I’m very happy with it.
Fp6 user here. It was pretty buggy in the beginning but now everything seems fine (occassionaly something minor but could just be android).
Biggest disadvantage is a worse camera, battery power and compute power for the price, but it is all acceptable.
Yeah I did look at one of the fair phones and my big problem with them is that they’re just cheap androids (cheap in terms of quality, not in terms of price) at the end of the day. I get that’s the point to a certain extent, but it would be nice if they had a more premium version with things like a better camera, and magsafe charging. I’d happy enough to give them more money but they just make the one model.
Could you tell me more about the disadvatanges?
Maybe with some examples.Does the battery ever not last a whole day for example?
Is the worse camera only about quality or does it take unreasonably longer to process combined with lower compute power?Battery last me almost always everyday except with excessive use.
Snapshots with camera takes a bit longer and like the other guy said it ain’t great (personally acceptable but that is opinion).
And specific example compute power I really don’t have, I am not the biggest power user anymore. I can say for typical daily tasks it is totally fine.
I just remind myself that making something cheap, repairable, better for enviroment and no slavery just isn’t as good as the slave made phones hahaha.
It’s got a rubbish camera. It’s basically 3 x zoom and that’s it, as long as you’re taking photos in bright lighting conditions, aren’t particularly bothered about really high quality colour reproduction, aren’t planning to zoom in after the fact (it ain’t got enough pixels for that), it’s okay.
But taking photographs at night even in fairly well illuminated streets is basically impossible. Not only do the photos not have great contrast but they’re also really noisy.
Obviously that’s only important to me, for me personally I’d rather have a better quality camera than the latest and greatest processor.
curious question: did you consider carrying around a small camera if taking pictures is so important for you? i am weighting pros and cons of this solution myself and slowly but surely coming to that breaking point…
My BlackBerry had a notification LED that I could set to different colors and based on the type of notification. Made it super easy to see if there was something I needed to look at without picking it up. I miss that.
Early Android phones had that, too. A very neat feature they got rid of.
“Where are my testicles, Summer?”
Can’t the Fairphone do some of these things still?
Shit take lol I’m a professional photographer and at this point my phone is one of my main cameras
On long distance hikes I don’t even carry a real camera anymore. Not worth the weight
The raw files from my iPhone are basically just as good as the raws from my fuji x100f. The only reason to use that camera now is for the analog tactile feel
And this is coming front someone who thought phone would never replace real camera
Headphone jack sucks and most of the other things are useless. Big screen and good camera is all people need
Big screen? For what? Huge rounded corners?
removable battery
because my phone runs out of battery after like 2 hours of 5G, and the external battery packs are sketchy and fragile
MicroSD
A large music library won’t fit on 512 GB internal storage and I want to listen to it offline, which is like 50% of what I use my phone for right now
I don’t want a big screen. My hands are bigger than nearly every other person’s I’ve seen this far and I yearn for an edge-to-edge iPhone 5. My friend has all his old phones and I held it not long ago and was like “yes, this.”
Big screens are just heavy as fuck and are too easy to look at for what a goddamn phone is. I had a 3GS once and it was fine, no one died, and now a regular phone is what was once called a “Plus” or a “Max” or whatever else.
A phone that would fit in my cup holder, and I could reach the other corner of the screen with my thumb-without moving the phone around was so much more usable.
So buy one of the small screen phones? They’re available.
Ooh, maybe a dedicated AI button right next to the power button that can’t be turned off or used for any other function that you accidentally hit all of the time.
Superglue.
Better yet not to buy such a phone in the first place.
My LG G8 all but got “upgraded” to this, it was a dedicated Google assistant button, right next to the power switch, and the assistant became AI. Thankfully, while you were unable to remap the button you could still just turn it off, I did that pre AI because I just never used assistant and kept accidentally hitting the button. There are a lot of things I miss about that phone, the AI button is not one of them.
people don’t use their cameras?
I would rather have all other features.
