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Is the fairphone really worth it? (feddit.it)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high..

If it's a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In theory,yes.

I won't buy it as my whole charging environment is wireless these days and the FP5 has no wireless charging.

Rolling back of course would be possible but annoying, especially for phone I would use for 5 years possibly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It won't be as good as native hardware support, but you can buy a device to add wireless charging. It plugs into the phone USB-C and has a short flexible cable leading into a thin (1 mm maybe) wireless charger receiver that can fit inside a phone case

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, had one of these for previous phones,but most don't fit properly with cases and if you need to properly charge the phone you are always fiddling around. Was not really satisfied with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ive been wondering what stops people to mod their phone for wireless charging

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From the tear downs I've seen with wireless charging it's actually a pretty sizable and complicated addition to just slap into a phone that's already had it's space optimized. I'm sure there's work arounds, but with so many various models and configurations I doubt you could create a one-size-fits all mod that would be popular/easy to implement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Fair, but with how moduler the fairphone's are, i kinda expected somebody to have made it possible :p