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Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking repairable phone from the company yet.

The design is largely unchanged compared to the Fairphone 4, but the improvements that the company did make go a long way: The teardrop notch and the LCD screen is finally gone, with an ordinary punch-hole selfie and an OLED taking its place. Otherwise, you’re looking at an aluminum frame, a triangular camera array, and a removable back cover. Here, the company brought back its signature translucent back cover next to two black and blue variants. The dimensions and weight has been reduced ever-so-slightly compared to the predecessor.

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[-] ChillPill@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

6.46" is too large a screen. My pixel 6a is barely small enough. Also, bring back the headphone jack.

[-] BigVault@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

I was pained to move to iOS when my kids decided they wanted iPhones and I needed one to manage their parental controls, but boy do I love the form factor of the 12 mini I got.

Everything out there seems so huge now.

I’d love to have more options for smaller, manageable phones, especially as my workplace have given out work iPhones now, I could realistically go back to Android again come upgrade time as I can manage their accounts with that.

[-] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Probably harder to make stuff repairable and modular when it's smaller

[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I know lots like small phones, but I don't. I personally would like a 6.7" 19.5:9 screen. This is actually a little smaller than I'd like.

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