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Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever. (www.androidcentral.com)

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Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever.

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[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago

FP doesn't need a flagship. There is only one line. That's the flagship. Don't like it? Don't buy it.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago

This, and in terms of repairability/sustainability, it's hard to make an "everything device" and do it well. Every time you think you got all user requirements covered, another user comes around the corner with a new set of hyper-specific requirements, and you're back at square one figuring out supply chains and design fundamentals. If your aim is to make something repairable and sustainable that is hard to make that way, it's much more feasible to just make two separate devices.

[-] baguette@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They also take in consideration whether the chips can be produced with fairly paid labour (to a certain level). I believe they have once stated that this was an important reason not to use some chips.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well yes, that's the reasoning I suppose. Some won't like it, and won't buy it.
So maybe it's wise to diversify. I don't know, I'm not an economist

[-] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

Right, and so anyone who wants an actual flagship phone should skip Fairphone because they’re not going to like it. I’m glad we agree.

[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Unless you are an elite mobile gamer, you don't need a flagship phone.

Even midrange will cover everyone's needs.

Flagships are nothing but marketing bullshit.

[-] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

I’ve had some midrange phones for a few days. They’re fine until I take photo and show it on a display that’s larger than a phone screen.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

So you want one with a top-ish-of-the-line camera

[-] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Yes, I would prefer a midrange phone with a flagship camera over a flagship phone with a midrange camera.

[-] DreasNil@feddit.nu 2 points 2 days ago

I completely agree. I got the FP6 with /e/OS like half a year ago and I love everything about it except the camera. I basically stopped taking photos now and borrow my partner's iPhone for photos instead... 😢

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

I mean, if showing pictures from your phone on a big screen is something you do so often that your phone absolutely has to do that and do it flawlessly, then yeah, I guess a midrange phone is not for you. But that's such a specific requirement, I can't exactly blame a company like Fairphone for not catering to those needs.

[-] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

What do you use a camera for? If it’s only for scanning QR codes or whatever, fine. But if these are the photos that you take as memories of events in your life, why would you be content with them being grainy and low quality? I suppose it’s a question of what you’re used to.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Most of my childhood memories have been saved on grainy, imperfect pictures and, yeah, I'm content with that and cherish them all the same (probably even more so, because that reflects the time in which they were made). If I want high-resolution photographs of something, I use a proper camera, but there's really nothing about "high-resolution" that implies "treasured memory" to me or vice versa.

Considering that even a midrange smartphone today is leaps ahead of "real" cameras from the past, I guess a different way to phrase your question is "Am I content to have my memories preserved with the image quality of a camera from 20 years ago?". And the answer to that would be a clear "yes". But to each their own.

[-] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

My compact camera from more than 20 years ago took/takes pictures that are a lot better than the midrange cameras I’ve tried recently. The resolution in megapixels is higher in newer phone cameras, but that is not the same thing as quality. I really do not agree with midrange phones being leaps ahead. With good lighting they might be on a similar level.

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