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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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[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

10 years ago the Samsung Galaxz S4 released, let's compare its specs with the current phone

Samsung Galaxzy S4 <> Galaxy S23

Display size: 5" <> 6.1"

Resolutuion: Full HD <> 120hz 2k AMOLED

CPU: 4x1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & 4x1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 <> 1x3.36 GHz Cortex-X3 & 2x2.8 GHz Cortex-A715 & 2x2.8 GHz Cortex-A710 & 3x2.0 GHz Cortex-A510

RAM: 2GB <> 8GB

Storage: 16-64GB <;> 128-512GB

The question is, do you want to run 10 year old hardware even if its software is supported?

[–] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

So

  • 22% more screen
  • twice the pixels
  • the same number of cores, though undoubtedly faster
  • four times the ram
  • 2 to 32 times the storage

Not that impressive for ten years of development to be honest. In addition to that there are limits to what is required for everyday usage. Not to make a "640k should be enough for everybody", but browser and messaging only requires a few GB of RAM and will do so for the foreseeable future. 8GB is future proof enough for the vast majority of use cases.

I have 2TB of storage in my PC. The actually important part (documents and programs) take up minuscule amounts of space. The remainder is for AI models, movies and games, all of which I could delete and download again.

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[–] Lime66@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do not buy preloaded LineageOS or /e/ OS phones or any Android phones without proper Verified Boot support and firmware updates. These devices also have no way for you to check whether they've been tampered with.> from privacyguides.org

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[–] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The price, no headphones plug...

Doesn't seem fair to me to be honest.

[–] MotherFlocker@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago

Nope, can't find one here, first of all. And even if it were available here, I can just degoogle other model for much better price anyways.

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