this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
385 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

37737 readers
711 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
385
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.

Related threads:

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And not including charger which you of course can buy for extra €25. It would be fair if the charger was free with every phone. Make it optional if you want to claim it's because of environment, but make it free if someone wants it with your phone.

[–] unautrenom@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

In Europe, next year, every phone will need to use usb-c. Since you're probably not using multiple phones at once, having more than one charger is a waste of BOTH ressources and money. Having the charger separate BUT with the price included in the phone's (because let's be realistic, there is no such thing as 'free' in the mobile market, just fees you don't see) would just raise the phone's price for everyone (including myself).

So I'll have to disagree. Having the phone NOT bundled with a charger is fighting both an economical and environemental waste.