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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Sustainability is nice, but it can't come at the cost of performance.

Instead of a modern SoC Fairphone uses an obscure automotive chip with the performance of an iPhone 7. As a result, it's obsolete out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Of course the replies to you have to say something like “fAsT cHiPs aRe MARKETING GIMMICK!” As they’re on their way to the Pixel subs to complain about Tensor

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