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Fairphone 5 Launch (inv.tux.pizza)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world
 

From their newsletter:

📸 Premium 50MP Triple Camera System

The Fairphone 5 comes with a 50MP selfie camera, a 50MP main camera with a finely tuned Sony lens, and a 50MP ultrawide camera for that perfect, cinematic shot.

⚙️ 8 Years of Software Updates

Packing a unique, long-life Qualcomm Octa-core chipset, the Fairphone 5 comes with clean Android 13, zero bloatware and at least five major software updates. That’s future-proof!

🎯 5 Years Warranty

The Fairphone 5’s modular design makes it super easy to repair by yourself. Add to that a five year warranty that’s twice the industry standard. The Fairphone 5 is definitely built to last.

  ♻️ Made fairer than ever

The Fairphone 5 is made with 70% fair and recycled materials in fair factories under fair working conditions and is a 100% electronic waste neutral. That’s fair!

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah that's the biggest turnoff for me personally, it sucks how we are always expected to pay a fat premium for something more sustainable. There should be some small government subsidies for phones like these, just like there are on e-bikes and EVs in many countries.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, if they actually ensure fair wages for as many people in production as possible, that's just what a phone of this caliber should cost.

Idk, the word price premium sounds more like an arbitrary and baseless increase to me, which this (hopefully) isn't.

There's a lot more that needs to happen, obviously. Because 700 bucks is a lot of money for many people either way, fair or not.

Edit:
OLED. I'm sold. Well, whenever my current phone dies, but then I'm sold.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is not that Fairphones are expensive.

It is that every other phone is made by slave labour, which makes them inexpensive.

[–] hh93@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Also every other phone is priced at the point of you buying a new device in 3 years anyway because the battery is glued in while the FP should have a far longer lifecycle