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[โ€“] noname_yet2077@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I expected them to release new phone in 2028 at earliest

[โ€“] Squiddlioni@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 3 days ago (7 children)

They've been on an every-other-year-in-September-ish release cadence since the 3 came out in 2019, so it's been expected for a while that 2025/09 would be the release of the Fairphone 6. Glad to hear they're on track for that since I've been holding off on replacing my phone in anticipation of the 6.

[โ€“] noname_yet2077@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

I mean for something as sustainable as fairphone it doesn't make sense (at least to me) to release new device every year. I know it's to keep things fresh and to remind everyone that they exist (and that's great!) but yearly releases remind me of consumerism like in apple's way, you know "get a new iphone" way. Good thing FF4 is still a good phone but there will be people who bought FF5 and will buy FF6 because we humans like new things

[โ€“] Scheffinski@hessen.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@noname_yet2077 @Squiddlioni there is still a huge additional market potential for sustainable phones. All the people buying new Samsung, Redmi etc crap every other year. This plus maybe people replacing there FF3 should be the target audience.

God I'd love to see people buy Fairphone over big tech brands. Especially elderly folks who don't need flashy UI and tons of tons of bloat that's also a spyware. At this point I don't know who need this anyways ๐Ÿคท

All and all I like to nerd-out on my friends and family about a phone that's so easy to repair, made from recycled materials and will last long time. Those surprised faces to the fact such thing exist are priceless.

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