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Fairphone in the US (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has fairphone said anything about trying to get fairphone parity in the US?

With how big the smartphone market is and with how much reparibility is becoming a bigger focus.

I'd love to get fairphone 5

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I bought the FP 4 in Canada. It works fine. You just can't register for the warranty. I used a UK based company that exports products to North America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it still cheap, or they increase the price like x2? Can you tell us what company did you used, please? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The site I used was Clove.co.uk. It wasn't double the price but I did have to pay duty

They make you send them photo ID which is a bit sketchy but they will legitimately import stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which carrier are you using it on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Freedom Mobile

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Perfect. I want to know more. Any issues specific to Freedom that you can tell? Does VoLTE work? WiFi calling? Are you using a physical or eSIM?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Physical SIM. No issues afaik. I just broke my old phone, ordered the FP 4 as my new one, and when it arrived I popped the SIM out of the old one and into the new. Never tried wifi calling so idk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How's the battery life?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Normal I guess? Just look up the phone specs if you want to know about that sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have, I'm asking about real world usage on Freedom. Depending on the bands available, battery life can vary significantly between carriers for the same device. ☺️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't have any complaints. Battery usually lasts more than a day assuming no heavy compute usage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Great. Thanks!