Birbla

Join the discussion

Write your take first — we'll ask for email only when you're ready to publish.

Sign in
  • Hacker News
  • No standard audio jack?

    That's a dealbreaker for me, especially for something touting modularity, repairability, and user control.

    by Gormo
  • Fairphone products have been available in the US officially for ages. This is just the ability to purchase direct from Fairphone.

    I bought a Fairphone 4 from Murena years ago (and am still using it), and I bought a pair of Fairbuds XL just in April from the same.

    by VyseofArcadia
  • "[GrapheneOS] lost most interest in that hardware due to the poor way privacy, security, updates and marketing based on these things has been handled."

    https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/28825-is-there-any-chance-o...

    by mrbluecoat
  • USB 2.0 port is the only thing preventing me from purchasing one. A wild choice since I believe previous versions did not have this limitation.
    by Runways
  • A friend had the Fair Phone 4. It broke after a year. Hostile customer support, not worth her time. Idk. Stories of "good guy" indie companies who drop you as soon as you fell for their marketing keep piling up. It may be greed, short sightedness or an incompetent understanding of what it means to have customers, the results are the same. See Framework for another example of this.
    by newsy-combi
  • I purchased a Fairphone 6 thinking I was going to solve a lot of issues I had with more popular phone models. This has not been the case. I think that when all is said and done, Fairphone will have done more to hurt the concept of device repairability than help it.

    Examples: Within a month of purchase, the little upper speaker grill/mesh sticker fell out. Now this is why I bought a Fairphone - a few clicks, a few days wait and a few screws later and I can easily replace it... not the case. They wanted me to warranty/send in my phone for a sticker replacement on "the world's most repairable phone." Not a great first impression.

    Another system update they shipped bricked my sim card. No support, no help, just me with a permanent fear of installing any updates in the future.

    by g8425
  • Exciting to see this soon after someone got the Fairphone 6 camera working on postmarketOS:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285

    The 6+ is a different model, but the announcement says the camera module is the same.

    by commoner
  • Looks great! For other T-Mobile users, it actually supports the full range of frequency bands. Quite a few devices claim T-Mobile support but are then missing band 12 or 71 on LTE or n71 on 5G, all of which are critical for coverage outside of cities.
    by threemux

Explore Birbla archives