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  • They can laugh all they like but I've been to hot climates during "winter" and heard complaints about the cold at 70F (~21C) which is a temperate spring day to me. We're all used to the climates we live in and hate when it reaches (relatively) extreme temperatures.

  • Has anyone independently verified that this is the case for the FP4? It's well known that the FP3 accepts testsigned ROMs, but all discussions regarding the FP4's trusted keys points back to the same FP3-specific thread on Fairphone's forum.

    It seems so.

    I don't know, it does make flashing custom ROMs easier but I would rather have to install my own signing keys or signing keys for the ROM as this way renders a part of the device security completely useless. I'd at least like to have known when I bought it.

    I'm not paranoid which is why I'm still using the device but these three points were each huge disappointments which make me not want to buy another Fairphone.

  • I think it's a Qualcomm Snapdragon SM7225.

    It's not really about better, it's more knowing what I'm getting. It's not their fault that Qualcomm's support is only 3 years (at the time) or that it takes them 10 months to develop support for the chosen SoC which eats into part of that 3 years. Still, I got the phone thinking I would have a reasonably secure device for 4-5 years which wasn't entirely accurate.

    I love the idea and, if you're willing to sacrifice some security for sustainability, that's great. I just want people to know what they're getting into because I didn't.

  • As the owner of a Fairphone 4, don't get one.

    It's sold as a 5G phone but crashes intermittently if you actually enable 5G. I bought a 5G phone and I'm still on 4G. I wish I could say that's the most of the problems, I could live with that.

    The software support, in my opinion, is falsely advertised. You do get 5 years of kernel and Android updates but the system-on-chip updates, which aren't made by Fairphone, end October of this year. That's a whole important part of the updates which cease only 2 years into support.

    Then, there's the real kicker; the hardware root of trust has the (publicly available) AOSP test keys installed. This means anyone can sign and flash a verified ROM if they have access to the unlocked phone. That's perhaps not too important for most people, but it screams incompetence and it means you cannot trust a second hand device.

    When the SoC support is up, I'm moving to a Pixel. I'm done rolling the dice on Android phone manufacturers and I want a well implemented device.

  • ELI5? McDonald's and Burger King. One has a Big Mac, the other a Whopper. One has red and yellow, the other red and blue. Either way, you're getting a burger.

    Oh, they're also right next to each other so you can wave to the people in Burger King from McDonald's and vice versa. Now everyone is enjoying burgers together.