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The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years (www.theverge.com)
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Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How is the CPU choice and official software support related? Genuine question, I don't follow smartphone tech news, I just look up stuff whenever I or someone in my family needs a new phone.

The comment I was replying to said that this Fairphone was going to be sluggish because of the CPU choice, with which I disagreed because I'm basically using an older CPU from that CPU family without issues, so I know that it doesn't have to be sluggish. Not in a Fairphone though, but in a Motorola edge, so the software will indeed be different.

[–] romp_2_door@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sometimes a phone with a good CPU performs poorly because of poorly optimized software

Often people on the internet will respond to that "well just find a custom ROM and a custom kernel, flash that and it'll be butter smooth!"

So I was assuming that you were implying that "only the CPU spec matters because you can always flash any software" and to that I respond that maybe some people don't want to flash aftermarket software

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

No, I wasn't, my phone is still completely stock. I use a custom launcher which could slow it down, but no issues there either. The processor just works smoothly in all my use cases and I blame all my connection issues on my network provider (they suck and I have no way of knowing of it's 100% of the time their fault, or only 90%, so I just blame them for every connection issue).