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[โ€“] Blaze 5 points 6 days ago (6 children)

My only concern with the Fairphone is the chipset. I've seen reports where the phone can be a bit sluggish, that's not ideal

[โ€“] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've been using it for the last 6 months with the fairphone ROM and I have not complaint about sluggishness

[โ€“] Blaze 1 points 4 days ago
[โ€“] kronarbob@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have a Fairphone 5 on CalyxOS. I find it smooth and reactive. Were the reports talking about phones on fairphone ROM ? I've used it a few second before switching ... It is bloated with so much google apps, it's insane.

I have to use a Gcam port to have a good camera experience. I would have liked a better battery life (it lasts a whole day minimum).

Overall, I'm happy with it.

[โ€“] Blaze 2 points 6 days ago

I guess they were using the Fairphone ROM indeed. Thank you for your comment

[โ€“] olof@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fairphone 5 is in my view perfomant and a very capable modern smartphone. You're right though with the earlier models, they were sluggish - I remember trying out a Fairphone 1 long time ago and it was a pain

[โ€“] Blaze 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks, I'm looking for video reviews where they show the phone running, surprisingly I couldn't find any

[โ€“] Slupiec@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, that could be a no no. Any suggestions for alternatives? Maybe Nothing phone?

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Nothing phone is pretty much not european. It is a technically British company with a swedish/chinese citizen CEO with a history of lying about his company (he started OnePlus in china as a BBK subsidy and tried to lie for years and say they were just a tiny startup) that does almost all of their electronics, mechanical, and software design in China (not just the manufacturing like all other phone companies, but the design and software also, and they don't even do the design, they contract it out to an ODM), with american investors.

The only thing European about it is their sales and marketing teams in London.

That may change in the future as they have some software dev job postings in London (most of their engineering postings are still in China) but we buy products for what they are now, not what they are not even promised to become sometime in the future.

[โ€“] Slupiec@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Thank you for sharing this.

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Mine is fine. It was an upgrade after having the other one for 5 years and the unremoveable battery starting to act up. Everything feels so much speedier.

I have an FP5 with /e/OS and it works fine.