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How private is a fairphone?
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$550 is a lot which is why it's a future plan for me. I have a pixel 7a which is serving me well at the current moment but the repairability on this thing is egregious. To repair the battery you have to unseal the adhesive with a heat gun and then pull off the interior battery adhesive and there's no guarantee it'll reseal properly. I plan to get as much life as I absolutely can out of this phone, but when it gives up the ghost I want something that'll last a long time and is repairable because reducing e-waste is important to me. I also just enjoy being able to fix things by myself. By the time I need a new phone, all of the five year old phones will be the current shitty unrepairable ones we have today.
not to rain on your parade, but F5 is a downgrade from 7a in practically every aspect.
I'm aware of the glued shut aspect and there are solutions for that nowadays. getting a SDM870 and better SoC for under $100 with tons of RAM and storage, for me is more than a worthwhile trade off.
on the other hand, it's perfectly understandable if you don't want to dick around with all that and/or want to support Fairphone's mission.
Hopefully his 7a doesn't die tomorrow, and by then Fairphone has managed to put out Something that's at least reasonably better than 7a.
When I bought my Fairphone, I was simply too fed up with working around the intentional shittiness of the other companies.
I prefer to deal with some technical limitations, than have to deal with intentional ones.
I use Arch BTW.