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Is the Fairphone 5 just a repeat of a proven formula or a real improvement compared to its predecessors?

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys’ opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m not going to criticize the project, because it’s good. But, to me, using anything that gives Google an edge in controlling the direction of technology is bad. So, no Chromium products and no Android.

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I despise Google, and I agree with chromium, but when the only other alternative is using the proprietary walled garden that is iOS, I’ll take degoogled Android everyday.

        • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Personally, I like using the terminal on my phone, and the only terminal I found for iOS is extremely slow because its emulating linux.

              • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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                11 months ago

                What sort of things do you want to do locally on your phone that you need the command line for?

                • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  11 months ago

                  Simple terminal applications like ping or curl or yt-dlp. I also like using python -m http.server to access my files over the local internet. w3m sometimes works when my mobile data is very slow and can’t load web pages. I also do use ssh a lot. I don’t need it if I have an ssh app but it is nice to have, and I switched to android for it.

        • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          For starters, you can degoogle Android, you can’t deapple iOS.

          You can replace the manufacturer android with a clean, free software and secure Android ROM, like GrapheneOS. iOS is a black box, fully proprietary and controlled by Apple.

          You can install apps from third parties on Android, like F-Droid. On iOS every app must be approved by Apple.

          You can’t use an iPhone without an Apple account, you can use Android without a Google account.

          Android has multiple profiles support, which comes handy for completely isolating apps from the rest of your phone.

          There’s much, much more. That’s just what came to my mind right now.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          11 months ago

          For a regular user… basically nothing.

          I quit google products and services a decade ago, so I was “relegated” to iOS, which… does basically the same exact fucking thing but better in every way. It’s spendy though. I also like their privacy stance, which is “we cost a lot but we’re not selling all of your data to advertisers”

          I have not found a single thing I can’t do on iOS that I COULD on Android.

          People spout WaLLeD GaRdEn and what I read is “privacy” and I’m in

          • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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            11 months ago

            They’ll complain about unauthorized developers…. Which I wouldn’t want anyway.