More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      21 hours ago

      I’ma be a while, damn it. I just got a red magic 11 pro about 9 months ago and I usually go like 5 years on a phone.

      • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        That’s a better phone in most aspects, there is no reason to regret purchasing it. Enjoy it now that you own it. Fairphone always say that the fairest phone you have is the your current one.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          17 hours ago

          It’s an awesome phone, but the offshoot is a locked bootloader and not many years of software support.

          I’ll be firmly stuck on android with this phone.

  • stewie410@programming.devEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    AT&T/T-Mobile only is tough, but they have to start somewhere I’m sure. I’ve wanted a FairPhone for a number of years; maybe I’ll accept shittier service (for my area) when my contract ends.

      • stewie410@programming.devEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        The first phone/carrier I got as an adult was an iPhone 4s from Sprint, and I basically didn’t have service for 98% of the phone’s life. Then again, the merger probably means a larger network overall.

        They should also have a service agreement with Verizon, giving them at least some additional coverage; though I’m unsure how much 3P are discriminated at the tower.

  • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    So they designed a phone for the US audience only to leave out 33% of the US audience by not supporting Verizon towers… do they want to fucking fail here??

    • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      32 minutes ago

      Verizon doesn’t support a lot of unlocked devices even sold from major manufacturers

    • Horsey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not get paid by to be put on the whitelist support.

    • sanitation@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      Concur. But gotta look at the frequencies, there is a chance most Verizon /visible freqs are supported