The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high…

If it’s a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

  • yyy
    9·
    10 months ago

    Most of that progression was made in the first 5 years, the last 5 years for new phone tech have been a lot slower. I don’t know if any spec in the next 5 will really make me want to upgrade, stuff just works atm

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      10 months ago

      I feel like we reached the stage where any improvements are really just incremental and small, you used to get a massively different experience when upgrading your phone even just a year later in the early days, nowadays you can barely tell the difference between new and 5 year old models.

      When we get in that state of a technology, we should definitely be looking at how to make our devices last longer instead of renewing yearly / bi-yearly.

      • ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org
        2·
        10 months ago

        When we get in that state of a technology, we should definitely be looking at how to make our devices last longer instead of renewing yearly / bi-yearly.

        Won’t somebody please think of the children profits?