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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish importing phones were an option for my country, but no. Even if I secured a way to bring it here, it takes 1000 dollars just to register its IMEI to use here.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Really wish Fairphone would come to the US. I'd spend the money on it, but they only half-ass sold the last gen phone here on the US.

I don't even understand why. They support most 4G and every mid and low band 5G in America. Even if I could just import it, I'd be happy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

AT&T has a whitelist system, they check IMEIs often and if your device is not approved, cell service stops working.

For Verizon, you have to call customer service to do a manual override.

Only T-Mobile allows any phone to work without explicit approval.

Probably some reason like they don't want people complaining the service is bad because they use a "no-name brand" phone, so they just cut you off and blame your phpne because it's easier for corporate. (Yay, capitalism! 🫠 /s)

I heard that Australia now has a Nationwide whitelist system that even block unapproved phones from calling the emergency number.

Technology is really getting enshittified. 😓

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can send you one probably, but you know.. tariffs (and processing fees).

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[–] sixty 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The headphone jack user to lemmy user ratio is apparently nearly 1:1

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately it's not available in the US though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fairphone 6 approaching? They are great, the project is amazing and I wish every brand would be like them in terms of caring about users and environment

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