The Fairphone 4, as nominated by @be_gt@lemmy.world!

As promised, you will be receiving 1 Lemmy Silver, and of course, bragging rights.

But, we also have an honorary Golden Lemmy award, which goes to...

Every Android device that is not the Samsung Galaxy S22+, as nominated by @OpenStars@discuss.online!

You get 1 Lemmy Silver (and bragging rights) too!

That's it for this year's Golden Lemmy, folks!

(Nomination thread is here for future references.)

all 17 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [S] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dear lemmings:

If this is the Golden Lemmy Awards, then why does the winner recieve a Lemmy Silver?

Curious.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    Holy shit, anti-S22+ actually pulled it off!! What an exciting time to be alive! :)

  • source
  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I donate my (honorary) award 🏆 to the real winners who made it happen: the people who upvote and post new content daily across this whole wonderful community:-).

    And to Samsung I dedicate a different type of award 💩 for making a good fraction of the functionality on their phones so heavily dependent upon their privacy-intrusive tracking measures... except who am I kidding it is mostly my own fault for purchasing one of their devices in the first place! 🫠

    Now we can all go read 👓 about that Fairphone, bc ngl it sounds kinda awesome!? 😎

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    I've seen a lot of people on the web being interested in acquiring a small size phone and/or a dumb phone and during my research I found about this Xiaomi subsidiary called QIN that have recently dropped what basically look like the best dumbphone "qin f22 (actually runs android unlike Nokia garbage dumbphones) " and the best small size phone (5 inches ) "qin 3" on the market.

    I haven't bought any of the above since I can't currently afford any of them but I know quality when I see it, and I doubt a new company that only sell such niche products would want to destroy its image by sending bad products.

    I am not affiliated in any way, just wanted to share the end result of my several days long search for a dumbphone to play java games again .

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's already a reality: https://www.unihertz.com/collections/jelly-series

    My only issue is that it's not Snapdragon and not quite dev/root friendly, but otherwise it ticks all the boxes - including a 3.5mm jack and an IR Blaster!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    The qin3 ultra match a lot of his demands for under 220$ but it's lacking quite hard on some others( mainly camera ). What he's asking for is a premium small sized phone but since it's a niche product with limited sales, making a premium quality varient would make it a niche within a niche, so I highly doubt we'll see it one day.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    There have been some small phones that run Android over the years. These days it’s less common I suspect because the devices are used for so much more these days. Having more of our lives involving the mobile smart device makes a larger screen just more sensible.

    But over the years there have been some. I have a few in my collection. I think Nokia has had some. Also a couple of Sony Ericsson Xperia models I think. Some others too.

    But current tech I just don’t think manufacturers want to bother because I don’t think the potential customer base is good enough to be able to make it worth making.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not a dumbphone, but Unihertz makes some actually small phones - like ones that can fit completely in your palm. These things are great to have as a backup phone, or something you can take with you while you go out for a run or the gym.

    https://www.unihertz.com/collections/jelly-series

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Wow, even the soc specs are great. Tho the screen being 3 inches is way to small for my shitty eyes, but the otherwise they look like solid phones.

    I am actually interested in the keyboard of the dumbphone to, as i said before, play java games the way they were designed to be played since touchscreen is garbage.

  • source
  • parent
  • [+] [B] 1 point 9 months ago
    [removed by mod]
  • source