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.
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Is it still cheap, or they increase the price like x2? Can you tell us what company did you used, please? Thanks!
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
Which carrier are you using it on?
Freedom Mobile
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?
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
How's the battery life?
Normal I guess? Just look up the phone specs if you want to know about that sort of thing.
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. ☺️
I don't have any complaints. Battery usually lasts more than a day assuming no heavy compute usage
Great. Thanks!
I looked up the supported bands and it appears that the Fairphone 5 is compatible with T-Mobile's 5G network, barring mmwave. So if you're not fussed by >6GHz connection speeds in built-up areas, you'll be fine.