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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the fault of the manufacturers. Google does their best to mitigate this but the unfortunate reality is that when Qualcomm drops support you're going to stop getting updates.

There are efforts to get these phones supported within Linux. When that happens they can just run forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Galaxy S2 actually had more updates than it could handle. While the last useful update had already slowed down the phone somewhat, the last available update was actually completely uninstallable - the portion of Google play services that was required to be installed on the system memory was larger than the entire system memory.

I more than doubled the useful life of that phone by switching to LineageOS / microG.

Chip support is definitely an issue with these devices, but it's Google that's running the treadmill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Galaxy s2 was easily my favourite phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hardcore oled burn in though. Probably because of the RGB pixel structure instead of the pentile that Samsung use for everything else.