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  • eyy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is commendable, but is 7 years really necessary? I think 5 years is plenty long before phones get outdated.

    • hyorvenn@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The whole philosophy of Fairphone is keeping it as long as possible through long term maintenance and access to spare part for self repairs. Fairphones are “outdated” almost at launch in terms of hardware in comparison to most phones on the market because this is not what we (fairphone customers) are looking for.

      • tierelantijntje@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        Exactly! I don’t care that I don’t have the most modern gadgets on my phone, I didn’t have them before so I will not miss them. To me being unable to replace my battery or having to get rid of my phone because the OS is outdated is unacceptable and stupid and I will gladly sacrifice having a 1gigapixel camera or being able to take my phone in the shower.

    • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:

      • software support had ended
      • the battery was severely degraded

      fortunately there was a local shop who’d replace the battery (it wasn’t a fairphone so I couldn’t do it myself). If it wasn’t for the software support I’d have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.