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Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative (eurotechguide.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43965516

It is worth noting that both the hardware and software of Fairphone is heavily dependent on a Chinese company T2Mobile.

For those looking to avoid both US and Chinese companies, then the Jolla phone is the way to go.

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[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Sometimes after using the camera, the taken photos will just disappear.

Often my screen will freeze up and the ohone becomes entirely unresponsive until I turn the screen off and on again.

Sometimes the screen won't even turn on at all and will then suddenly unlock and register every single swipe and tap I made on the off screen registers at once.

Then sometimes when idle the phone will just randomly crash and reboot.

A genuinely awful experience I have to say.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you should send it in for warranty, if you still have it.

[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think it's worth it. A lot of these issues are well known on the Fairphone forums so they're clearly not specific to my phone. The second I find a suitable replacement I think I'm done. I like the idea of a Fairphone but they're on their sixth device now and still can't manage stable software.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

tbh this seems to be a hardware issue. the software is supposed to be the same for each phone of the model, and there are a lot of them where it just works.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Weird. Which model and OS is this happening on?

[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fairphone 6, stock Android 15.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Could be a hardware issue. I am running the same and haven't seen any of that stuff. Sucks that you have though

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

I think you should send it in for warranty, if you still have it.