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I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too
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I bought an HMD Pulse Pro which is also made to be repairable. They have a partnership with ifixit.
Either this or a fairphone would be an instant buy from me if they were smaller. Modern phones dont fit into my pockets comfortably anymore
Sony is the only available manufacturer of phones that still makes something that feels smaller, albeit only on one plane since theyre just less wide. I really enjoy it, but something even smaller like the z3 compact would be great.
Yeah, i'd love a Fairphone but it's 5 times the price of the HMD and I just don't care that much for processing power or the camera. I just use my phone for messaging, playing music, banking and sudoku.
I bought the Pulse for £110 new.
Yeah but HDM only offers 2 years of OS upgrades according to their own specs page. Fairphone offers 8 years. They have to get the software as well as the hardware.
Yeah, there's no doubt the Fairphone is a better phone. There's definitely issues with the HMD. I don't think the Fairphone is 5 times better though.
hmd has an awful website. I want information, not random photos and hype
wtf are these!
Here you go. Both links from the page with "no information".
Full Specs - https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-pulse-pro/specs?sku=286946224
Repairability - https://www.hmd.com/en_int/self-repair
that indeed is a clean page that gets to the point
The issue with that phone (and seemingly everything coming from HMD) is that it only gets 2 major OS upgrades. Also, it launches a major version behind, so it is actually only a single upgrade.
I am quite upset about it. I had a Nokia 6 (made by HMD) and loved the well made, durable hardware and very clean no-bloat software. I have been saddened to see that while most phone brands have been extending their OS support window, HMD has been shortening it.
Yeah, it's definitely not ideal but £110 brand new made me get over it :D
Hopefully they continue the repairability and do something better with the OS in the future.