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Is the Fairphone 5 just a repeat of a proven formula or a real improvement compared to its predecessors?

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys’ opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

  • FacebonesEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    I went with pixel 8 Pro and graphene os, but I did consider fp.

    Can you even use a new fp in the US?

    • pandacoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      If it works it’s likely not supported officially by any carrier (this probably also applies to Canada and possibly Mexico), but it’s at least not for sale in the US. Not sure if it’s sold to all of Europe or just the EU/EEZ however.

      • FacebonesEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Yeah I’m a techie but not super well versed in mobile tech so I didn’t want to roll the dice. I’m happy with graphene os on my pixel though, and supposed to get 8 years of support out of it.

        I was happy with my s20+ but EOL on it was in like Feb so I jumped on black Friday when I could trade in and pay $500 for an 8 Pro.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      You can technically. But you might not get service in certain areas because it doesn’t have support for all of the US bands.

      I came really close to importing one until I found I couldn’t use 5g, and there’d be very little LTE support for T-Mobile.

      Ended up getting a Pixel 8, hopefully they can get it to the US sooner than they did the FP4.

      Ive been considering GrapheneOS. I only really use Banking, Android Auto and occasionally Maps from the play store (although I LOVE Organic Maps).

      • FacebonesEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I’ve had a fine time with GOS so far. If you just want to lessen Googles grip on you instead of going balls deep on security/privacy, it’s been just as fine as a stock rom. You can install play services as a normal ass app sandboxed and control it’s perms to get your push notifications and if an app doesn’t work out the box there’s a compatibility mode that lessens the GOS behind the scenes workings so it’ll run.

        I don’t have any map app yet, but all my banking apps work (one with compatibility mode) and haven’t had any issues with anything so far.

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Graphene doesn’t and won’t ever support android auto, sadly, it’s the only thing I miss

        Edit: well, that’s what they said, but now it’s optionally available!