There are two main types of cell phone buyers

Intriguing insight in this review of the Fairphone 5:

There are two main types of cell phone buyers – those who love checking out the new gadgets and getting a new phone, and those who “hate saying goodbye” to their old devices, who would rather not replace a phone for mere planned obsolescence because it still works *just fine* except for this one little thing that either can be worked around or *should* be fixable.

Fairphone is intended for the second group

https://www.theverge.com/23895548/fairphone-5-review-price-features

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I’d love to get a Fairphone for this reason. But I also don’t want to get a new phone right now, for the same reason.

Here’s hoping what I’ve got lasts long enough for this model (or the next) to reach the US.

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This looks helpful: someone compiled a list of where the #Fairphone 4’s network bands overlap …

This looks helpful: someone compiled a list of where the #Fairphone 4’s network bands overlap with various US carriers, so if you manage somehow to get one across the pond, you have an idea of how likely it is to work on your carrier!

https://www.kimovil.com/en/frequency-checker/US/fairphone-4

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