That's a better phone in most aspects, there is no reason to regret purchasing it. Enjoy it now that you own it. Fairphone always say that the fairest phone you have is the your current one.
AT&T/T-Mobile only is tough, but they have to start somewhere I'm sure. I've wanted a FairPhone for a number of years; maybe I'll accept shittier service (for my area) when my contract ends.
The first phone/carrier I got as an adult was an iPhone 4s from Sprint, and I basically didn't have service for 98% of the phone's life. Then again, the merger probably means a larger network overall.
They should also have a service agreement with Verizon, giving them at least some additional coverage; though I'm unsure how much 3P are discriminated at the tower.
So they designed a phone for the US audience only to leave out 33% of the US audience by not supporting Verizon towers... do they want to fucking fail here??
Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not get paid by to be put on the whitelist support.
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Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website · 17 pts · 1d
I'm glad to see this. I'm strongly leaning towards a fairphone for when my current one dies.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 21h
I'ma be a while, damn it. I just got a red magic 11 pro about 9 months ago and I usually go like 5 years on a phone.
Ilandar@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 18h
That's a better phone in most aspects, there is no reason to regret purchasing it. Enjoy it now that you own it. Fairphone always say that the fairest phone you have is the your current one.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 17h
It's an awesome phone, but the offshoot is a locked bootloader and not many years of software support.
I'll be firmly stuck on android with this phone.
stewie410@programming.dev · 4 pts · 21h
AT&T/T-Mobile only is tough, but they have to start somewhere I'm sure. I've wanted a FairPhone for a number of years; maybe I'll accept shittier service (for my area) when my contract ends.
Kirk@startrek.website · 4 pts · 18h
I'm using a T-mobile MVNO and the coverage has been great ever since they bought Sprint.
stewie410@programming.dev · 1 pts · 4h
The first phone/carrier I got as an adult was an iPhone 4s from Sprint, and I basically didn't have service for 98% of the phone's life. Then again, the merger probably means a larger network overall.
They should also have a service agreement with Verizon, giving them at least some additional coverage; though I'm unsure how much 3P are discriminated at the tower.
sanitation@lemmy.today · -4 pts · 1d
Can they sell larger size phones plz. I'll buy it
Turret3857@infosec.pub · -4 pts · 23h
So they designed a phone for the US audience only to leave out 33% of the US audience by not supporting Verizon towers... do they want to fucking fail here??
Horsey@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 22h
Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not
get paid by to be put on the whitelistsupport.tkk13909@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 19h
God I hate Verizon. I'm never touching their fucking service lol
Horsey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16h
AT&T started using a whitelist too at some point. T-Mobile is the last major carrier left to not care what phone you use.
Turret3857@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 21h
Its a bribe? I wasnt aware of that. That fucking sucks.
sanitation@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 23h
Concur. But gotta look at the frequencies, there is a chance most Verizon /visible freqs are supported
keyez@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1h
Verizon doesn't support a lot of unlocked devices even sold from major manufacturers