• theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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    28 days ago

    TLDR: HMD, the company behind modern Nokia phones, is making repairable devices, but software support is only 3 years, so if you buy it 1 year later on sale, and the phone screen breaks in a year or so, it will have less than a year left of security updates. The issue is that the bootloader can’t be easily unlocked either, so no Custom ROMs for you. You’re stuck with 3 years of support.

    Fairphone do it right cuz they do software support properly as well.

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      26 days ago

      Too bad ‘Fairphone’ actively prevent them being sold outside Europe. (they ban shipping forwarders and their ‘global partners’ only sell FairPhone to Europe)

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      27 days ago

      Happy Fairphone 4 user here! 🙂

      Though I’ve heared mixed things about the FP5…