Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Nokia has decent phones dirt cheap that you can repair yourself, and you can buy spare parts cheap too, and it runs completely vanilla Android, with good multi year upgrade policy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh-7sMEDxyw

    My wife has her eye on a Nokia G42, and it has both Micro SD slot and minijack. So you can use a 1TB MicroSD and laugh all the way to the bank at those who bought an S24 Ultra with 128GB 😂 🤪 😆 😜 😋

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        9 months ago

        Yeah. Buy Nokia.

        Let’s also support European companies over Chinese ones.

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          9 months ago

          Except Nokia isn’t European anymore since Microsoft ruined them and sold the brand to the Chinese company HMD Global. You’re welcome.

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            9 months ago

            Not only is HMD Global not Chinese, they’re actually the same Finnish company that people think of as “Nokia”. Nokia do a lot more than just phones and they sold their mobile phone arm to Microsoft, who then spun it off as it’s own company called HMD who licensed the Nokia name.

            If you want to buy from a European brand, HMD/Nokia are worth considering.

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              9 months ago

              Well, shit…you’re right. I messed up. I was pretty sure HMD is Chinese. Sorry for the drama, I felt very frustrated with Nokia since the downfall of Lumia. I’ll consider it, but looking forward to get the shiftphone 8 when released atm.

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        9 months ago

        Yes you are right, I just remembered it was small for the price, especially considering it does NOT have micro-SD.