The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high…

If it’s a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

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From a privacy perspective: no

From a fairness and repairability perspective: yes

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Why is it bad from a privacy perspective?

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The default Fairphone OS has Google and a bunch of other trackers.

For a good privacy friendly Fairphone, you should get the Murena Fairphone (they preinstalled DeGoogled /e/OS)

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So not really worse than any other Android phones

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It’s not bad, it’s just that it’s an Android phone like any other. It doesn’t claim to be more “private”. It would be approximately the same amount of work to degoogle as any other Android phone.

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Probably easier if they dont actively try to prevent you from unlocking & rooting

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They literally launched a /e/OS version the same day…

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