- extended update service to 7 years
- pushing Material UI consistency
- Tensor G3 chip for AI & machine learning performed locally on device
Headphone jack? Sd slot? Replacable batt?
So pissed the new fairphone dropped the headphone jack.
US doesn’t even get a faiphone…
Neither does my country…but transhippers exist
That doesn’t work. The radio bands necessary to use cell phones and data in the US aren’t all in the fairphone. You can’t make it work right in the US, even if you have one.
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Welcome to dongle life!
What rubbish. It is exactly the same as every other smartphone on the planet. Updates are only new software and even then you could flash a new rom.
Click bait bullshit
Is this year’s Tensor an actual in-house chip or just another rebranded shitty Exynos?
Hats off to Samsung tho, kneecapping the competition 😂
this article says that it’s based on its Exynos 2400. Good call
I’m being a non-article-reading heathen here but of those three bullets I don’t think any is new to the smartphone industry - albeit Apple is cagey with support timelines (and probably slows down on what’s fixed versus the current iOS version) but the 5s technically got a iOS 12 patch this year.
If a seven year update cycle becomes the norm for Android phones that would be revolutionary in my opinion. I have my doubts though.
meanwhile Fairphone on their way to do up to 10 years
Very impressive. $700+ is unfortunately well out of my preferred price range. Especially if the battery issues I just read about are accurate.
They usually drop in price. They were just selling the 6a for $200 like a month ago, so given a bit of time you can get a good deal on the second-to-latest generation.
All that is worthless when the phone will be released without battery.
Do the 7y updates also apply to the non-pro versions?
Sure.
none of those features are current or future requirements of mine. i want user-expandable memory, and useful expansion IO like the headphone jack, microsd and USBc.
there is not a single ‘feature’ introduced in the last decade that i care about.
If it doesn’t have a physical keyboard it’s won’t change shit
You may wanna look into F(x)tec
The only thing that i want from Google right now is that they release Android 14.
Meanwhile, I want them to stop releasing shit. IMO Android peaked already, and it seems like every update over the last 5 years has made things slightly worse.
Have they made improvements? Yes, but each improvement has come bundled with several UI regressions.
Yeah, and to be honest, the only reason i look up to Android 14 is because of the AV1 codec hardware acceleration requirement.
There were some major last minute bugs so they’re releasing it in October with the phone this time.
Updates, user interface, and local neural network. You’ve described the iPhone.
I don’t agree with that assessment
Those are facts. Having a quality phone will not change the world forever.
Yeah the title is very hyperbolic
