Fair Phone 5

LostCorpse · 11 Sep 2023 at 20:20

more informational for those interested
but i see the fair phone 5 is up for pre order

Fairphone 5 | Fairphone

Designed for you. Made Fair. Discover the newest member of the Fairphone family.

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Fairphone 5

Brands like to talk about sustainability but few brands blend it into every product like Fairphone. Fairphone 5 is taking it even further.

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key feture is 10 years of softwre suport and 5 android verions at the moment !
so less than £100 per yer

The_Arbiter · 11 Sep 2023 at 20:27

Seems good, and anything with a replaceable battery is a winner. It's still too big to prevent a purchase from me. But when the time comes i have to upgrade and there's no smaller ones about then i'll bite.

I'm still on my 3rd purchased smart phone, Pixel 4a (2nd hand even). So will drive this into the ground also.

LostCorpse · 11 Sep 2023 at 20:41

Yup, replacable battery is also a good move.
i'll miss the 3.5mm jack though.
i'm considering getting one, but want to wait a month or 2 before taking it further to get good general feed back on it.

The_Arbiter · 11 Sep 2023 at 21:12

Ah no i missed that, no 3.5mm, that sucks. Definitely falling out of favour these days. But i guess if you have a new phone, then you have all other relatively new devices with bluetooth also

LostCorpse · 11 Sep 2023 at 21:16

or usb-c to 3.5mm adaptor
bluetooth just means im likely to put the phone down some were walk off and lose it..

The_Arbiter · 11 Sep 2023 at 21:16

Didn't know that was a thing!

LostCorpse · 11 Sep 2023 at 21:20

UGREEN USB C to 3.5mm Jack DAC Type C Headphone Aux Adapter around £12 ish is waht i purchased havent used it much as i've relegated my old phone to an mp3 player (built in 3.5mm jack port)
the DAC give better auido quality as i understand it.

Malevolence · 11 Sep 2023 at 21:34

Looks awesome, but there's always a damn catch. It's only 6.4", if it were 6.6" or 6.7" I'd have snapped their arms off.

CaNsA · 11 Sep 2023 at 21:51

LostCorpse said:
the DAC give better auido quality as i understand it.

Compared to Bluetooth or something else?

LostCorpse · 12 Sep 2023 at 20:23

CaNsA said:
Compared to Bluetooth or something else?

at the time i was looking and you know those audiopiles as well. there was a lot of debate over audio quality an getting a good DAC as the phone ones were rubbish atthe time.
this was basically 3.5mm vs bluetooth issue on quality, were bluetooth was a bit more flat and the existing usb=c to 3.5mm had disortion as i remember or some other poor quality.

Freddie1980 · 13 Sep 2023 at 09:55

A bit pricy for my tastes, they need a phone that's around the £250 mark. While I support the idea that phones should be supported for longer and shouldn't be treated as disposable items I typically keep my phones for 4/5 years anyway and only replace them when their truly borked and broken. The Fairphone 5 at £600+ seems like an expensive way to make people feel good about what their purchasing (but the 10 year software support is a genuine plus I’ll given them that).

david25 · 13 Sep 2023 at 18:50

Malevolence said:
Looks awesome, but there's always a damn catch. It's only 6.4", if it were 6.6" or 6.7" I'd have snapped their arms off.

Looks awesome, but there's always a damn catch. It's only 6.4", if it were 6.0 or less I'd have snapped their arms off.

LostCorpse · 13 Sep 2023 at 20:03

david25 said:
Looks awesome, but there's always a damn catch. It's only 6.4", if it were 6.0 or less I'd have snapped their arms off.

i agree, i'd like a smaller phone tbh. i've a note 4 and samsung 53 g5 and find them just a tad to big :/

Freddie1980 said:
A bit pricy for my tastes, they need a phone that's around the £250 mark. While I support the idea that phones should be supported for longer and shouldn't be treated as disposable items I typically keep my phones for 4/5 years anyway and only replace them when their truly borked and broken. The Fairphone 5 at £600+ seems like an expensive way to make people feel good about what their purchasing (but the 10 year software support is a genuine plus I’ll given them that).

yep i agree upfront cost is high, it was one of 2 reasosn putting me of the Fiar Phone 4, that and an unsupported CPU part way through the phone5 5year life.
in this instance they are :
"if you’re at all familiar with the Qualcomm QCM 6490 chipset then you may raise an eyebrow. That’s because it’s a chip generally reserved for Internet of Things (IoT) devices rather than fully fledged smartphones that generally don a Snapdragon chip. The reason for this strange inclusion is that it enables the long support from Qualcomm for this chip, until 2028, then Fairphone will offer updates until 2031"
so not ideal but good so far.
being unlocked and an IOT chip i can see a good lot of options for the phone possibly outside of just a phone if your in to messing about with it..

the cost of the phone over 10years make it a good value / same value as my samsung galaxy a53 g5 at around £70 a year if i work the maths well.