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Fairphone releases a Fairphone 5 with 6gb RAM and 128gb storage for €150 less (lemmy.world)

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https://www.fairphone.com/en/2024/09/04/how-much-ram-does-your-smartphone-need/

Couldn't find another decent link in that wasn't written in Dutch, but you'll find it at the bottom of the story.

Besides the storage and RAM, nothing else has changed.

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[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

The real problem is they took a ubiquitous jack that needed zero dongles no matter where you used it and binned it.

It brought exactly zero solutions (because you could already use bluetooth even if the phone had a jack) and more problems (adapters, can't charge and listen at the same time, well without yet another adapter, etc.)

I appreciate your input but I don't understand how people excuse all this. "Just use this adapter and then this" Why? What problem have we solved? IP68 was doable with a jack, etc. Basically people are cheering on companies who did this all for their own bottom line- not for any consumer benefit.