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[the Verge] - The Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modern (www.theverge.com)
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A little bigger, eight years of support, ability to repair when things break. Still no headphone jack and the AMOLED display is a regression. Expensive but doesn't use slave labor so that's good. I'll stick with the FP4

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[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If my employer wasn’t offering and forcing me to work with an iPhone 13, that’s what I would buy and probably use /e/os on it.

I hope people keep buying these so that bigger manufacturers have less and less success with their throwable phones.

The only downside is that 10 year of support ain’t that much when you see what Linux can do on a 15 years old computer. Still, it’s not Fairphone´s fault.

[–] unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iPhone has great longevity as well. Better than any Fairphone or an overwhelming majority of Android devices. The 2014 6s is still getting security updates.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Well I wouldn’t really now as my employer is giving/forcing me to have a new one every 2 years.

But yeah you can feel that the hardware is good.

Still I can’t say I would buy anything from Apple with my own money (except an end of life Mac to put Linux on it for cheap).