Reviews

introduction My old Phone was going down hill quickly. Not even because of the battery not lasting long or a cracked screen, that was both fine, but because of software. I had already used the phone for about 1 year without any updates, since Samsungs cheaper phones don’t give that many years of support. Sure I was a bit concerned, but just didn’t put any important information on it and isolated it on my networks, for a bit more security. At the end it stopped being able to install or uninstall some apps. Those were both apps installed through the Google Play store and the F-Droid store. So I needed a new phone. Yes I really neeeded it, since I need an app for the ticket I use to travel with public transport. So I looked around. I wanted something with solid software support, since I don’t need a lot of performance. Normally I just listen to music and text a bit. Since I already knew Fairphone it was not a hard choice. I would have considered SHIFT, if they didn’t just sell on preorder, which I don’t do. So it was Fairphone then, the most fair producers of tech I know of, that are not a Uni project or experiment 1. This was quite a happy choice, if it wasn’t for the one hardware flaw: a missing headphone jack! But there are no real good alternatives. ...