Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever.

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[โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Right, and so anyone who wants an actual flagship phone should skip Fairphone because theyโ€™re not going to like it. Iโ€™m glad we agree.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago* (9 children)

    Unless you are an elite mobile gamer, you don't need a flagship phone.

    Even midrange will cover everyone's needs.

    Flagships are nothing but marketing bullshit.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Iโ€™ve had some midrange phones for a few days. Theyโ€™re fine until I take photo and show it on a display thatโ€™s larger than a phone screen.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    So you want one with a top-ish-of-the-line camera

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, I would prefer a midrange phone with a flagship camera over a flagship phone with a midrange camera.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago

    I completely agree. I got the FP6 with /e/OS like half a year ago and I love everything about it except the camera. I basically stopped taking photos now and borrow my partner's iPhone for photos instead... ๐Ÿ˜ข

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I mean, if showing pictures from your phone on a big screen is something you do so often that your phone absolutely has to do that and do it flawlessly, then yeah, I guess a midrange phone is not for you. But that's such a specific requirement, I can't exactly blame a company like Fairphone for not catering to those needs.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    What do you use a camera for? If itโ€™s only for scanning QR codes or whatever, fine. But if these are the photos that you take as memories of events in your life, why would you be content with them being grainy and low quality? I suppose itโ€™s a question of what youโ€™re used to.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Most of my childhood memories have been saved on grainy, imperfect pictures and, yeah, I'm content with that and cherish them all the same (probably even more so, because that reflects the time in which they were made). If I want high-resolution photographs of something, I use a proper camera, but there's really nothing about "high-resolution" that implies "treasured memory" to me or vice versa.

    Considering that even a midrange smartphone today is leaps ahead of "real" cameras from the past, I guess a different way to phrase your question is "Am I content to have my memories preserved with the image quality of a camera from 20 years ago?". And the answer to that would be a clear "yes". But to each their own.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago

    Absolutely not, even disposable cameras from 30 years ago are far better than midrange phone cameras. Maybe not so much in low light, but unlike phones they had a usable flash that solved that problem entirely for anything near the camera (e.g. group photos).

    I'd be not just content but thrilled if a phone could get close to analog 35mm full frame performance, but I'd say we're at least about 10 years away from a flagship phone taking photos as nice as a "normal", mid-range compact film camera from 1995.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

    My compact camera from more than 20 years ago took/takes pictures that are a lot better than the midrange cameras Iโ€™ve tried recently. The resolution in megapixels is higher in newer phone cameras, but that is not the same thing as quality. I really do not agree with midrange phones being leaps ahead. With good lighting they might be on a similar level.

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