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Is the fairphone really worth it? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by dontblink@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high..

If it's a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

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[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago

check your most used apps here to see if they work with mircoG: plexus.techlore.tech

I've been using degoogled phones for years and I bareley have any issues. only issues are snapchat and google maps give warnings, but work. other google apps work fine.

It used to be you had to regularly do some convoluted workaround to get things working with microG, but that hasn't been an issue for me for years now.

yeah the fp5 is expensive, but hardware wise it's the first one I could actually see myself using as a daily driver. Considering that I'd probably use it for 3 years at least, the price isn't that bad either. However, I'd love to have a folding phone instead, but I'm pretty sure it'll take a few years until good degoogled roms are available for those. so yeah fp5 seems like a good transistionary device.