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Fairphone 5 Released (shop.fairphone.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org
 

With 5 years of OS support and 8 years of security update.

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[–] ripcord@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Repairing has generally been better than buying new for 98+% of cases in the last 5 years or so.

[–] Apeeksiht@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah these glue shut phones are pain in ass. Phones need battery replacement after 3 years don't want to go to a service center for a simple job.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't mean in the sense that it's been more practical. I was replying more to the idea that repairing being better isn't dependent on a phone getting very light usage which is what they seemed to be impying.

Very few new phone features released in the last 5 years or so add very much real value for very many people.