🆕 blog! “All phones are foldable. But some are foldable only once.”
I want a new phone! I went to a wedding and everyone1 had one of those new folding phones. Social marketing has done a number on me and inveigled its way into my brain. Hey, I make decent money, perhaps I'll buy one. How much could they possibly cost? About £1,700 for a Pixel Fold […]
@otfrom sorry, I misread that!
Moving to Lineage is great for extending a phone's life but, yeah, some banking apps are a bit sensitive about it.
You can hide root - but it is hit and miss whether it works properly.
@Edent I think I'm going to upcycle some of the screens on old phones into something (not quite sure what yet). Would be good to keep a phone that does what I need for a bit longer. I'll be glad to get back to a fairphone after a few years on a one plus.
@Edent@otfrom I have a Fairphone 4 with CalyxOS. Banking apps were fine. I did run it with /e/ for a while, but bootloader was unlocked, so some bank apps did not work.
@otfrom@Edent I've got a 6 year old phone too! And 6 broken displays "that I might someday need". Besides, who needs more than 3 gigs of RAM? I miss the security updates, tho. And Slack, starting from tomorrow.
Regarding the banking apps, it's possible to use the web interface instead. Not the best UX, but usable.
@salakala@otfrom
Yes, most banking apps do push-notifications, transaction approval and rejection, biometric authentication etc.
Some even do NFC payments and/or card verification.
If all I wanted was viewing transactions, mobile web would be fine.
@otfrom@Edent in regards of phone, will see how the spares become rarer and vintage-y. With Fairphone's repairability comes the price hike for spares. On the software side I'll have to pray. Oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question...
@salakala@otfrom
There are a ton of spare parts for Fairphones on eBay. And if that fails there are loads of complete phones in 2nd hand shops which can be broken for parts.
@Edent If only there was @GrapheneOS support for it it would be perfect. But until there is a trustworthy OS I'm afraid I'll still have to prioritize privacy here. 😐
@Edent Sorry, you're absolutely right. 😶 What I somewhat clumsily tried to say is that I share your enthusiasm for the Fairphone. But only on the hardware side of things. But apart from that I also think it probably will be/is the best available option.
So basically a +1 with an asterisk.
@Edent I'm relatively pleased with my #FairPhone 4, although it is quite a bit bigger and heavier than I would like. Disappointed that over a year after Android 13 was released, its not available for FP4 though, so it remains to be seen what "8 years software support" means for FP5. Also a bit disappointed that rooting my FP4 breaks OTA updates (disabling OTA on rooted phones is a standard Android thing, but I had hoped that it didn't apply to the Fairphone).
@steve@Edent
If the rumors are right they are using a Qualcomm chip meant for industrial/automotive/embedded systems. Basically it will get longer support from Qualcomm making it a lot easier to support it for a longer period, since Qualcomm will do the heavy lifting.
@Edent I've only ever had two smartphones which might have been considered "flagship" in their day - the Samsung Galaxy S2 (terrible hardware and firmware, replaced after 18m), and Nokia 8 (disappointing firmware, only one to need repairs which were shoddy and took weeks between UK and Hungary).
2010 HTC Hero (contract)
2012 SGS2 (contract)
2013 Moto G (SIM-free)
2015 Moto G3 (SIM-free)
2018 Nokia 8 (SIM-free)
2021 Samsung M51 (SIM-free)
I aim for mid-range, about £300, with 4y+ of updates now.
@Edent You too can be the cool kid at the party without taking out a second mortgage by getting a second hand Surface Duo for about £300 on eBay :dragncoolmlem:
Caveat: 2/10 for repairability on iFixit. You'd probably just break it more if you tried to take it apart :disappointedcat:
@Edent For 90% of adults, a Redmi Note 12 for 180 euro is more than enough. I say adults because today’s teenagers would probably start a hunger strike if they didn’t get an iPhone.
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