Personally, I don’t see a problem with this as 128 gigs of storage is fine for me on a phone. In fact, I currently have a 64 gigabyte phone and I’m not using all of it, even now.
Yeah, same here but like another commenter pointed out… some people need the fucking space.
Which is cool, let them pay the margin on the product.
A bit toxic but that’s how market is supposed to work.
Just like my cell phone plan, I get to pay $15 per month for calling texting and 5 gigabytes of data because I know for a fact that I’m not going to use 5 gigabytes of data where everybody else is paying $60 or more for unlimited.
yep learning this cool trick too…
just trying to cut “margin” everywhere i can, it saves $ while really hurting “owners” hehe
I was curious and checked, i need 91 gigs right now, and i’m pretty sure i can easily deal with 64 if i would just unload and delete all the junk that is sitting on my phone for no reason.
Since the memory and storage are soldered to the mainboard though, and that’s one of the few components that’s not sold separately, there’s no official support for turning a 6GB/128GB Fairphone into an 8GB/256GB model though.
Cant they just sell a replacement mainboard like Framework?
One day if they can survive it and they are a good faith actor.
What is their selling point? vis-a-vis graphene and calyx besides, a normie can buy it and use out of the box.
vis-a-vis graphene and calyx besides
Wat?
Another missed opportunity to bring back the headphone jack.
the Fairphone 5 has sold for €699 and up since it launched last summer, making it kind of pricey for a device with mid-range specs.Now the company has dropped the price to €629 and introduced a new €549 model for customers willing to sacrifice a little memory and storage.
both phones have a microSD card reader. So you’re paying €150 more for just 2 more gb of RAM?
That 2gb can make the difference between apps being reloaded or not. 6GB is the barely minimum if you use your phone more than just a phone. In a few years 8GB will be the new minimum.
No, you’re also paying for an extra 128 GB of onboard storage. The onboard storage is faster than an SD card and can run applications.
The Fairphone isn’t a good deal price wise. That’s not what it is marketed as in the least.
I looking for a simple and very user friendly phone for my 74yo father in law. Would this be a good option?
looks way over priced for a mid range spec of a 2021 era hardware in both old and new devices that you’d pay £200 or less for back then but all it is is 2gb ram extra same type of ddr standard added on and only then 256gb compared to 128gb is thexdifference a sd card can be bought and used adopted storage method to go way beyond or equal to the difference for practically $4-10 so neither phone from fairphone is fair priced being as they are being priced up at $500-600 it’s 100% out of normal realms of common sense to buy it, they simply just won’t buy it in the numbers then to keep the comoany afloat because the pricing is ultra over inflated, it’s old spec standard hardware trying to be upsold for triple it’s retail value
For some kind of logical alternative product slightly less spec but half decent for that era’s hardware then a moto g range device a g10 and upward should be comparable bit slower half the ram at 3gb but some are much higher and the g10 new was just £120 delivered back in 2021 with a 8 core soc by snapdragon, so throwing weight in the product being worth triple that you’d expect about 9gb ram if that were a thing 256gb storage and a newer 3x faster chipset at triple that price it is £360 so you can imagine the shock at fairphone’s costing nearly twice that then they should be 6x faster and 12gb ram physical ram not virtual as well, the camera a 108mp or higher etc etc the specs do not justify the cost never will even halving it
