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Thoughts on fairphone 6? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Been looking at the Fairphone 6 and damn, support until 2033? That's actually insane.

The whole replaceable parts thing is pretty sick too. Battery goes bad? Just swap it instead of dropping $800 on a new phone or getting the battery replaced for $100

Probably gonna throw /e/OS on it too because why not.

What's everyone else using? Anyone actually have experience with Fairphone or am I just getting hyped over nothing?

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a few major gripes about the Fairphone 6 which otherwise looks like an awesome phone. It costs an extra $200 in the US. So it’s a midrange phone made out of plastic for $900. Really difficult to justify that unless you have a ton of disposable income. Then you can only use it on T-Mobile. While it’s awesome that parts are easily replaced, I wish there was a way to upgrade over time. I’d imagine those parts will cost more in the US as well.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thats sadly a US problem, I live in the EU and can buy it for maybe 680USD. If the price is the biggest problem for you then that's great news about the phone

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, if I lived in Europe it’d be almost a no brainer. Although the lack up upgrade path without buying a completely new phone is still kind of a bummer. I’ve had my iPhone for 3 years and never needed anything with it repaired. By the time something in this phone does break, I’ll likely be due for an upgrade anyway. Wish I could buy a Fairphone and slowly upgrade the parts so I would no longer be tied to an upgrade cycle. To me that’s way more attractive than a highly repairable phone.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can people in the US just use EU providers and get away from all this, or at least until the EU becomes fascists too?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don’t think so. How would that even work? It’s not like the EU carriers have any network infrastructure over here.

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