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Is the Fairphone 5 just a repeat of a proven formula or a real improvement compared to its predecessors?

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys’ opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

      • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        Lately I’ve been playing Need For Speed Underground 2 on the AetherSX2 emulator. A Fairphone absolutely cannot do that.

        Look bud, I’m not trying to attack Fairphone, you don’t need to be defensive. I’m just setting expectations that this is not a phone for people that need a high performance processor. The chipset is low-end, objectively. I’m sure it’s fine for people who don’t care about that stuff.

      • Olhonestjim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        11 months ago

        Seriously. What mobile games are worth time or money? Aren’t they all just pay to win now?

        • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I can emulate PS2 and GameCube games on my S23. It’s pretty great. My S21 struggled with that, so any Fairphone would definitely not be able to do that, as it has significantly less processing power.

    • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      If that’s the sum total of your reasons for needing a more expensive, less free, less repairable phone, then I have nothing left except to laugh at you.

      • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        11 months ago

        No, I just don’t have the time to explain the hundred obvious ways that a fast processor might benefit somebody, so I chose a single, INCREDIBLY obvious item near the top of the list for most people, and was hoping that I wouldn’t get follow-up idiotic responses like this. But alas!

        • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
          25·
          11 months ago

          I used an 11 year old phone for about 6 months while I waited to get a new phone. I never had any problems with processor speeds despite having about 60% the processing power of a then-current phone.

          I think people vastly overestimate the need for a bigger better processor.

          • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            I never said that everybody needed a fast phone, or even that MOST people need a fast phone. I would agree that most people don’t. I was replying to somebody that said their old phone was slow, and informing them that the Fairphone is probably not a solution to that specific issue because of its budget processor. It’s not a performance phone; it’s an ethical phone that does basic things perfectly fine.

            I don’t know who you’re arguing with, and I don’t think you do either.

            • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
              11·
              11 months ago

              I’m arguing with you, genius, because I think you’re wrong.

              There are not a “hundred obvious ways that a fast processor might benefit somebody”, as you stated. There aren’t really any good reasons. Games are a stupid reason. Everything necessary works fine with an older processor. It’s not the 2000s anymore where software bogs down any computer older than three years.

              • PwnTra1n@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Now, the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum, What might be right for you, may not be right for some. -different strokes