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Which smartphone has the best balance between all these? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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In hindsight, I should've added a few more..

Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.

Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers' rights and supply chain. Preferably European.

Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.

I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it's a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it'd be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS... but it's Google, and given the CLOUD Act...

Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it's Apple), but that's a separate category.

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[-] mapu@slrpnk.net 14 points 8 months ago

Fairphone /e/OS version hits all three

[-] klairman@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I agree, the only (big) problem is that many bank apps don't work there.

[-] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Mine do, and every single bank app I've ever used works there as well. Admittedly that's three, but like 2 big and 1 small makes these claims feel antiquated.

[-] klairman@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I could fine this post and actually you are right, the compatibility is much better now.

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