INFO!!! fairphone DOES SUPPORT CUSTOM ROMS!!!
i like the idea of a fairphone. i dun wana buy one tho - if it doesn hav the features i need/wan.
if fairphone had all dis stuff - it would hav a genuine moat, besides the sustainability stff-
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And the removable battery was really awesome. Being able to turn your phone off completely in just 10 seconds without any tools. Or pop in a spare one and have a fully charged phone on the go.
Also maybe I’m paranoid but it’s really nice to know you can turn the phone completely off.
Yeah. This is also my opinion. I don’t trust phones to be completely disconnected when there is no physical switch, just a button that has to be pressed.
The replaceable battery has less and less appeal toe with those crazy 120 watt chargers. A good power bank can replace that functionality quite a bit IMO.
i don’t mean this in a mean way, but I think you forgot how good replacing a battery was and got Stockholm syndromed into liking non replaceable batteries lol
Until your battery needs to be replaced and it costs you $300 for a phone repair shop to.do what should be a 10 second job
I don’t care about fast charge times. I do care about my battery life significantly shortening after one year.
My old Xiaomis never had that problem 🤷🏼♀️ guess I was lucky, hoping it’ll continue like that 😁!
I heard iPhones are crap when it comes to battery life and batteries in general, but that’s just what I have heard.
I was speaking to the fact that I cannot replace the battery after one year.
It’s a Lithium Ion problem. There are a limited number of recharge cycles.
On average, after one year of charging every day, your smartphone battery will be at 80% its original capacity.
Most batteries are rated for at least 1000 cycles before hitting 80%. I’ve absolutely had phones last three years before getting to that point.
Yeah maybe 80% is then way more than I need today. Computers are getting more efficient.
But actually it’s not at all 80% after 365 charge cycles, that is just lying. Battery tech is also improving but never had it been 300-400 charging cycles to even 90%
If people, not only lemmy’s people and a small minority care about the jack people would buy phones with jacks, there are good options but very few people do.
Most people actually like and prefere bluethooth.
Same for ROMs, when was the last time you said “wow, I sure miss custom roms” and the whole room went “meeetooo”. Hell, most people don’t even know what a custom rom is.
This is not what “the people want” is “what lemmy thinks everyone ones, but is actually only them circle jerking”.
Downvote me to hell, but is the truth.
i said in the post “to get me interested”, not “to get the majority of people interested”.
It says clearly down to the right “Focus on features people want”.
Off topic but I really like your style of drawing, it’s cute.
^_^Fairphone with graphene os and headphone jack would be awesome.
I want a phone completely untouched by Google. No Google hardware, no upstream Google dependencies at all. Hardware that I control and a more “traditional” flavor of Linux with a mobile-native DE.
Maybe you will find this interesting: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/
Btw, umidigis with the same CPU sell for ~145€ on AliExpress. This is just extreme.
Also I like your drawings and art style/visualization.
aww thanksies <3 <3 <3 <3
TLDR - focus on features people want.
You think people don’t want accessories…?
naw- i agree, peeps want accessories. i was just mad that they made the backplate accessorie so that even the basic bavkplate has screws on the back… which triggers somthin evil in me - iduno-
Fairphone has sources available for it and an unlockable bootloader. There are nightly builds of Lineage already available for the FP6
And you can buy it with /e/OS prwinstalled which is a custom degoogled rom of android
I don’t fully understand this “I won’t buy a fairphone, because it doesn’t have a audio jack” way of thinking. Are there any phones that actually has a jack and still gets updates?
I agree it would be a nice feature, but the few I have spoken to, whom actually complain about this, has ended up buying another phone that IMO is worse and also has no jack.
I’m just confused, not trying to be negative or mean towards anyone.
Cellphones in the US don’t have headphone jacks anymore? I thought that was just an Apple thing. My Redmi has almost everything in that drawing except its not customizable.
Almost all the smartphones around the world don’t have a headphone jack, there are some exceptions to this rule but in general that’s the “trend”
I will never buy another phone without wireless charging. Yes, I know it has significant downsides. I do not care, I am hard on my ports, wireless charging doesn’t break. Given that qi2 is now available as a standard and blunts the severity of the downsides as well … Realistically not buying another phone until I can get an unlocked bootloader qi2 phone with decent specs.
Wireless charging is a waste of energy
I feel like most of these are at least misleading if not outright false (or maybe I’m misunderstanding them, so please correct me if I do).
- Allow custom ROMs: It does, and there is even a Google-free variant they sell on their store.
- Dual SIM and SD card slot: There may not be dual slots, but there is Dual SIM (one physical, one eSIM), and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a phone with multiple SD card slots.
- Programmable “moments” button: The button is not programmable per se, but there are different settings to make it do different things.
- No dumb accessories: If you don’t find them useful, don’t buy them?
- Headphone jack: Fair enough, I do miss that one, but the USB-C with an adapter works okay, and I’m still using the same headphones that I’ve used for years.
The missing 3.5mm Headphone jack hurts so much :(
yesyis, also my biggest gripe ;(((
if i cud jus hook up my good lil headponies - like - i wud keep that phone for however long i cud keep it-
A 3.5mm to USBC converter really does cost less than a coffee… Was probably not made with ethical labour tho
However, 3.5mm to USB-C adapters are not passive, they’re active. They need a DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) to generate audio signals from the digital data stream that comes from the USB-C.
Phones didn’t use to have very good DACs (with exceptions, of course), but they’re still normally better than whatever you get from a 3€ adapter.
Adapters are also less convenient than a headphone jack, because now you need to remember taking the adapter and the headphones with you.
However, 3.5mm to USB-C adapters are not passive, they’re active. They need a DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) to generate audio signals from the digital data stream that comes from the USB-C.
There are entirely passive adapters, but they’ll only work if the phone has the necessary hardware of course.
USB is digital, TRS is analog. All adapters must have a DAC (digital to analog converter) to make that transition. DAC requires power, making it active. DAC in phone will be higher quality to convert to analog. DAC in cheap adapter will be low quality.
Or, you wire the output of the DAC in the phone up to the USB C port and enable them only when the connected dongle announces it supports “Audio Adapter Accessory Mode” that lets the phone pass the analog audio signal through directly.
It has mostly fallen out of favour though, as it’s become easier to just stick the DAC directly in the headphones (Or speakers etc.) and keep a purely digital output path.
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