The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high…

If it’s a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

  • Kimusan@feddit.dk
    296·
    10 months ago

    From a privacy perspective: no

    From a fairness and repairability perspective: yes

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
        298·
        10 months ago

        It’s not bad, it’s just that it’s an Android phone like any other. It doesn’t claim to be more “private”. It would be approximately the same amount of work to degoogle as any other Android phone.

          • Madis@lemm.ee
            13·
            10 months ago

            Though that does not equal to interest by the devs who create ROMs and other such content.

            Maybe less of a concern since Treble but a concern nonetheless.

            • Ilandar@aussie.zone
              7·
              10 months ago

              Every Fairphone to date (perhaps not the original) has had support for custom operating systems, on behalf of both the Fairphone developers and community developers at large. The Fairphone 4 is one of the most widely supported modern devices and there is no reason to think this will suddenly change with the 5.

            • Gamey@feddit.rocks
              5·
              10 months ago

              Fairphone always had a lot of interest from the open source community, I don’t see why that would change…

      • JVT038@feddit.nl
        93·
        10 months ago

        The default Fairphone OS has Google and a bunch of other trackers.

        For a good privacy friendly Fairphone, you should get the Murena Fairphone (they preinstalled DeGoogled /e/OS)