Man, not a good look for a company who boasts about the repairability of their phones to hide key software repair tools behind an arbitrary paywall - especially when required because of their own faulty update via their official channels.
This is why I never recommend updating devices straight away. Give time for the dust to settle and major faults/vulnerabilities to be ironed out first.
This happened last year. This isn’t a new occurrence, I can’t see anything referencing anything new
except maybe the lawsuits.Edit: never mind, I just skimmed, saw lawsuits section, and checked sources, there aren’t even any lawsuits referenced in this
That’s a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left their customers hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.
It depends on their response I think. They can own up to the problem, make their products more resilient or theh can do nothing in that case the repair washing is obvious.
IDK if I’m understanding their response correctly in the article but it really sounds like the people affected are left to pay for the repair themselves
are there any options left in that list?
This file is not publicly distributed and is available only to Fairphone’s authorized repair partner.
Yikes. I always call bullshit when there’s some “super ethical” product that has shitty specs and an insane pricetag.
Stop getting scammed, ya’ll.
To be fair, it is official supported hardware for Mobian and PostMarketOS
Yeah not very fair if there’s no right to repair
some users reported that devices with malfunctioning or disconnected fingerprint sensors became stuck on the boot animation and could not complete startup.
Some context. Also this happened last year.
This is the event that happened last year.
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when will we get a linux based phone that is not android?
librem 5? pine phone?
just dont expect either to be very performant or popular
Considering the Pine Phone’s price, poor performance is an understandable trade-off.
it may even be a selling point depending on how you look at it
a phone that’s painful to use is a phone that you won’t feel incentivized to doomscroll on 😁👍
I’d like to see a free phone OS that isn’t limited to specific devices.
Technically we have one. It’s called the Google Pixel 3 XL (literally everything runs on it somehow)
Nokia N900 from 2009. Question is when we’ll get a new one.
Maybe Jolla phone? Dont know if its good enough for daily driving but seems like it has some potential.
Brax3
Cross your fingers for https://mecha.so/comet
Fairphone has a linux based os option, /e/ OS/e/ OS is not a Linux based OS. It is a fork of LineageOS, which is a fork of AOSP. I run /e/ on a FairPhone 3+.
I read wrong as my source was about the EU OS, not /e/ OS. Thanks for correcting.
This happened last year. It isn’t new news.
