Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10? | iFixit News
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Is the Fairphone 5 just a repeat of a proven formula or a real improvement compared to its predecessors?

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys’ opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

  • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    11 months ago

    If that’s the sum total of your reasons for needing a more expensive, less free, less repairable phone, then I have nothing left except to laugh at you.

    • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      No, I just don’t have the time to explain the hundred obvious ways that a fast processor might benefit somebody, so I chose a single, INCREDIBLY obvious item near the top of the list for most people, and was hoping that I wouldn’t get follow-up idiotic responses like this. But alas!

      • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
        25·
        11 months ago

        I used an 11 year old phone for about 6 months while I waited to get a new phone. I never had any problems with processor speeds despite having about 60% the processing power of a then-current phone.

        I think people vastly overestimate the need for a bigger better processor.

        • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          I never said that everybody needed a fast phone, or even that MOST people need a fast phone. I would agree that most people don’t. I was replying to somebody that said their old phone was slow, and informing them that the Fairphone is probably not a solution to that specific issue because of its budget processor. It’s not a performance phone; it’s an ethical phone that does basic things perfectly fine.

          I don’t know who you’re arguing with, and I don’t think you do either.

          • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            I’m arguing with you, genius, because I think you’re wrong.

            There are not a “hundred obvious ways that a fast processor might benefit somebody”, as you stated. There aren’t really any good reasons. Games are a stupid reason. Everything necessary works fine with an older processor. It’s not the 2000s anymore where software bogs down any computer older than three years.

            • PwnTra1n@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              Now, the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum, What might be right for you, may not be right for some. -different strokes