You’re already unpopular, Linus. You swept a workplace sexual harrassment scandal under the rug, were called out for your lack of proper testing, and your data is constantly incorrect.
The improper testing has plenty of sources. They were trying to speed rush through testing and missed details.
The sexual harassment doesn’t have hard sources. It got tossed in there as an afterthought as everyone dog piled him for being popular and the botched testing. No idea if it was really true or not.
Wish Linus had the energy to be a less shitty person and NOT work his team at an unmanageable rate, and had a clear idea of what his company even is.
Btw, nice condoning sexual harassment by completely minimizing it.
“Linus isn’t a big company, so it shouldn’t matter as much”
Fucknuckle
Aint that guy a shill?
That was my first thought. Then the video starts with, we got these phones last summer and they are prototypes…well, I don’t think I have to hear anything else. Maybe his integrity issues stalled the release of the video. If that’s the case, just throw away the review and wait until you can do a production unit.
Got a followup?
No?
Didn’t think so.
Were you expecting a reply while you typed the comment?
I like it when youtubers use thumbnails that scream “this is crap, don’t watch”. So many use them, too. Thanks.
Linus has repeatedly pointed out that, unfortunately, it works. They make way more money from videos that follow this shitty trend.
They can’t even get their testing data right. There’s no way in hell they could predict the loss of users from clickbait because they’d be already gone at that stage. So you would only measure with users that are susceptible to clickbait, which of course means they’d click more on clickbaited videos. It’s like EA suddenly doing a decent thing. It probably won’t pay off for them in comparison, because all their good faith costumers have been shunning the company for probably decades at this point. And what’s left are the customers who buy their shit anyway, regardless of how much they get milked or bullied through various marketing strategies.
Please don’t promote this prick anymore!
I agree with the review here, I’ve always found the mission of fairphone exciting and noble, but the specs…always left me with a meh feeling.
“It’s a fairphone, not a great phone”
“They overshot the mark and made too many compromises” - 100% agree with this line
I’ll still hop to Fairphone after my current phone dies. I would miss a great camera the most but a decent camera is still a decent camera. At least I’m the boss over my own phone, I’m so fed up with not being able to swap out parts myself like with a normal desktop.
I’m so fed up with not being able to swap out parts myself like with a normal desktop.
Meh, most phones (except iPhones) aren’t really that difficult to swap a battery out or something. The easy removable battery is nice, but you can change the battery on any Android phone with a bit of patience, time and heat.
Beyond the battery, the fairphone looks…pretty much the same inside from any other Android I’ve taken apart, the battery adhesive is the most difficult part once you’re inside the phone, everything else is easy. So it’s really not worth the performance compromises IMO
For what it’s worth, that is where I thought Linus was wrong.
The camera is completely fine. I did the mkbhd camera test for many many samples and fairphone, for me personally, was ranked just below the pixel out of all the phones. Except I think in lowlight where is was 7th or so.
I think compared to their previous phones, the 5 is quite decent as far as cameras. The lack of wireless charging and headphone jack kills it for me though.
