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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by dwazou@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today -4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Big red flag:

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

... That's because it comes with vanilla android, unless you buy the e/OS version or flash it yourself

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'd just install another OS to begin with. But again, I'd reaaally like it to be GrapheneOS. And then again, Pixels also come with all that crap (and much more) enabled by default.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago

Graphene doesn't. The way I see it is like buying a laptop with pre-installed Windows, and replacing the OS.