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[–] napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 11 points 1 year ago

Recently a user here did the math on that and the fair/eco part of fairphone is really miniscule (they spend less than 5$ per phone and a big part of that are fairwashing credits). Unless you need the repairability or the specific specs, you might be better off to buy a cheaper phone and just donate money to a good cause.

Here is the original post: https://lemmy.world/post/32013987

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[–] uthredii@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

sailfish?

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've quickily looked up Sailfish and am shocked that we haven't been hearing more about it. Why is so? Where's the catch?

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[–] sickday@fedia.io 13 points 1 year ago

We currently sell and ship Jolla C2 within the European Union, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Switzerland.

From a cursory glance, they don't ship to any of the largest smartphone markets. That's likely why you don't hear much about them as opposed to any of the global distributors.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

It actually looks decent, and their C2 phone looks reasonable though not premium (8GB RAM, 4G LTE, a 1600x720 screen and no fingerprint reader are not brilliant specs, though they'll do the job and it's a nice looking phone). The OS subscription might put some people off though: you get one year of updates and then have to pay about €5 per month.

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm pretty curious about the C2, as well, but don't live in their market, and don't want to pay 100% of the phone cost in shipping fees, etc. And after all that, I have no guarantee of support. As for the €60 per year, my latest phone is an S22 Ultra, half of whose features I no longer use due to the updated Samsung TOS. I can absorb that cost for the sake of updates, if they'd let me.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago

The forums suggest there are quite a lot of bugs and the device is slow. I hope Sailfish OS continues to improve but for a daily driver I'm leaning towards Graphene OS as the best option for now.