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The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high..

If it's a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably easier if they dont actively try to prevent you from unlocking & rooting

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Though that does not equal to interest by the devs who create ROMs and other such content.

Maybe less of a concern since Treble but a concern nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Every Fairphone to date (perhaps not the original) has had support for custom operating systems, on behalf of both the Fairphone developers and community developers at large. The Fairphone 4 is one of the most widely supported modern devices and there is no reason to think this will suddenly change with the 5.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fairphone always had a lot of interest from the open source community, I don't see why that would change...