Looks like modular is the new buzzword for phones that look like that new nothing phone, with straps, pins and whatnot. I wonder is there really a market for these things?
I mean, I love what they’ve done with the Skyline, but this thing looks kind of useless.
Serious question: in what way did maps.me get shitty? I’ve been using it for years as a gps replacement and other than being closed source and having a paid tier found no issue with it ( or at least no extra issues compared to other OSM apps )
Fair enough
Yeah, android authority posts a lot of Google-favorable “articles”. Almost as if they were getting paid to.
A shame motorola is cutting back features on their low end phones as well. They used to be the only decent manufacturer that offered fm radio. That’s now down to a handful of phones. The jack is gone as well. Expandable storage is also growing ever rarer. Meanwhile their cameras are still shit, their manufacturing quality is down, they don’t even bother with ip ratings. So what’s their selling point? Why would you buy a budget moto nowadays instead of dozens of other, better priced and better equipped alternatives? The gestures?
Yes, but the nexuses did not have the courage and the vision to remove jacks and sd cards, all while getting more expensive. Fuck I miss me a proper nexus.
She will probably discuss trade and investment opportunities related to Italy, not the whole EU.
Ladies and gents, this is what you get when an industry stops innovating. Moving search bars up and down, adding endless “summary” pages, obfuscating pages behind others etc
And the gabelstapelfahrer mit der stapelgabler prahlt
Interesting. How do you guys feel about Bruttosozialprodukt?
For Romania it has to be this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JSlZWR3lJs
It even became something of a hymn for the 1989 revolution.
I’m loving the look of this thing, but “audiophile brand” just screams “overpriced as fuck” to me. Time will tell I suppose.
What a strange thing to be pedantic about
Funny, I just read some piece of news that one of the leaders in the romanian far-right party wants to regain the north-bucovina territories ( which have been a contentious issue for a long while now ) from Ukraine at any cost, even if it would mean Romania leaving NATO. Birds of a feather share the same russian propaganda I suppose.
Romania: PM uses poor results to justify cancelling promised raises to teachers’ salaries, raises that were negociated after protests earlier this year.
Education Minister pretends the results are excellent, despite them being worse than previous ones.
So business as usual I suppose.
i would be willing to overlook those cons if they just allowed an unlockable bootloader. man i miss my 6.1 with lineageos
I’ve been corrected on the price - looks like I was using an older quote.
I do realize that their point is to make the phone’s manufacturing process fairer, but their older models were more decently priced, so I wonder how much of that tag is actually due the higher cost of manufacturing.
Still, since people switch phones a lot earlier than EoL, it would be nice if there was a way to discourage the frequent switching ( for marginal performance gains ) and instead encourage keeping smartphones until EoL ( which, granted, for some manufacturers is less than 2 years )
Yeah, just noticed the new price. It’s not available in my country yet so I was quoting the one listed on gsmarena. At 700Eur it does make more sense, as it’s a similar price to the old Fairphone in 8gb guise.
I really wanted to get this phone, but at 850Eur that’s a hard pass from me. I could let the lack of jack and FM radio slide, as well as some design choices that they made, as sacrifices need to be made to make it modular. But I can find that hardware in phones that cost a quarter of a Fairphone. And then there is the repair cost, where the parts cost almost twice as much as getting a non-fair phone repaired at a shop (even moreso if I were to use aliexpress parts and home repair). Again, I fully expect a repairable and fair-source phone to perform worse than a regular one, but this is like paying iPhone money for a Xiaomi midranger. Also, the 8 year warrranty feels like a scam because the chip they use will be out of production in 4-5 years.
Almost pulled the trigger on a Skyline, but then read about the bootloader not being unlockable, and hmd “promising” to make it unlockable at a later time. That’s bullshit right there - if you offer only 2 years of software support you better make the bootloader unlockable, otherwise it’s e-waste.