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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by dwazou@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've been meaning to look into PinePhone myself.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As an owner of an old pine phone, I can confidently say avoid for now. Not remotely ready or reliable enough.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just want something to have decent Linux support. I want to run postmarketOS, mobian, or something of that ilk on my phone, and I want all the basic phone features to work properly:

battery - phone should sleep and wake properly so I can get a full day's use out between charging
modem - calls, SMS, MMS, data, etc should all work consistently
wifi/bluetooth - should be reliable and something I don't notice
audio - speaker and mic should be sufficiently good and reliable

And so on. I don't need any special app support, I just need the phone to be able to reliably do phone things.

Here are issues I've heard about from the PinePhone (Pro):

battery - well short of a full day, though OG PinePhone is much closer than PinePhone Pro
calls - I think this is okay now?
SMS/MMS - the best solution I've seen is to hook up an MMS bridge to Matrix, upload everything there, then download; that's ridiculous
wifi/bluetooth - I think it's okay? Honestly, it's not something I've bothered to check up on
audio - I've heard audio quality sucks, both on the mic and the speaker

That doesn't get into actual usability issues. I'm honestly pretty tolerant of a laggy interface, but I need those basic phone functions to work properly.

[–] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I know that pmos have a pixel 3a port , have been looking into that a while back but not installed yet. Worth checking out

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Looks like a lot of "Partial" support. Some concerns:

volume cannot be applied in software
On v24.12, the current is limited to 1 Amp and there is no thermal mitigation for charging.

Maybe it's fine? Idk.

[–] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Battery charging is ofc an issue for main driver , but if you can live with it I'd say it's ok , no thermal control shouldn't be an issue at 1 amp . Basically at that you can't use the phone while charging and expect not to run out of juice.

Volume control yea needs testing I guess. Feels it can be an issue or not

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I could live with the charging, provided it can charge overnight. The volume is the real concern.