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FallenWalnut Mar 7

Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative

https://lemmy.world/post/43965569

Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43965516 [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.

pelespirit Mar 7

the Jolla phone is the way to go

Are there any downsides to this? There has to be, right.

Edit: commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sept-26

Jolla Phone (Sep 2026)

I mean the downsides are it’s Linux. That’s not without it’s upsides but the downsides are huge.

Would a phone have that many downsides? I would think that a computer would have much more. Maybe the phone companies don’t play nice? I 100% don’t know what the downsides would be.

From my research, the phone part of the “phone” doesn’t work very well. Which is a pretty big caveat.

WolfmanEightySix Mar 7

That’s the main thing you’re buying it for…

bleistift2 Mar 7

Well, are you? I can’t remember the last conversation I had over phone.

WolfmanEightySix Mar 7

Yes. Especially with work, although not necessarily with my personal phone, it does happen.

Also, it’s a 650 Euro, £562, device….i don’t want to buy it and some parts don’t work.

I’m on the phone all day. Believe it or not some people are different from you 🤯

SeductiveTortoise Mar 7

Goes both ways, I’d be happy if more calls would simply fail midway.

“What a shame, better write an e-mail.”

Goes both ways

No one else is suggesting that everyone talks on the phone.

SeductiveTortoise Mar 7

We clearly have different communication partners. Most of the issues of mine are solved by them thinking about it. Writing an e-mail forces them to.

WTF is a “communication partner”?

Anything you email me gets lots in a sea of bullshit imploding in my inbox. Just send me a text if it’s not urgent or doesn’t require discussion or you just don’t like me.

SeductiveTortoise Mar 7

Well the way you write I’m not surprised people don’t like you.

LOL because yours was so much nicer?

WhyJiffie Mar 8

kind of, yeah

WhyJiffie Mar 8

Anything you email me gets lots in a sea of bullshit imploding in my inbox.

that sounds like a different, bigger issue.

Nope, it’s the same issue. Your calls are not lost in my inbox.

WhyJiffie Mar 8

no. the issue is that your inbox is full of unclassified spam

Weird, my phone isn’t full of unclassified spam.

The future of industry is doomed with gen z being militantly unwilling to take a phone call. But I am holding onto some hope because I hear they’re also spearheading the CD music revival, so I just hope they also recognise the retro-coolness of telecommunication.

Otherwise, the art of verbal communication will die. People will meet and connect via text, only to be completely overwhelmed when they meet irl and have to talk to one another face to face. But social life is inconsequential. But at the end of the day, for the purpose of business communication, if you can’t talk on the phone, your just a fucking pussy.

Ludicrous0251 Mar 7

I’m with you - I’d pay extra for a phone that doesn’t take calls just so I can force everyone to just send it as a text.

baronvonj Mar 7

could you not just get a data-only SIM?

Just delete all your phone apps and then you won’t get anymore phone calls. Bing bang boom.

I have one. It has no issues with calling, video, ect…

It works in the states as well. And all apps too. I guess my only complaint is parts are getting hard to come by for fairphone 4. Which is why i bought the phone, to be repairable.

Oh wait sorry for some reason the interface didnt load the first comment. I dodnt see the context. Woops!

We were discussing Jolla, not fairphone

Where did you get that from? I have been using one for the past 6 months without any calling issues.

It was a common complaint I can’t across when researching a few different Linux devices.

I guess if you’re not probably having issues I must be wrong, because everyone’s experiences should mirror yours, exactly.

Kilgore Trout Mar 8

It has improved a lot through subsequent releases. It also depends on which phone it is running on. On my Xperia XA2 with licensed SailfishOS at the latest version, there are no issues with calls and SMS. It does not support VoLTE, but it is a non-issue in Europe.

You still did not answer my question. Pinephone has those issues with all Linux OSes, so do ports for many phones. Officially supported phones do not to my knowledge.

You asked 1 question, which I very clearly did answer. I’m not sure what you’re looking for here.

ALoafOfBread Mar 7

It also isn’t as performant for the price, or so I’ve heard. They’re working on it, but it isn’t up to par with big name companies.

What does that mean to you? I hear people say this all the time but I haven’t come across anything my phone couldn’t run in over a decade. I haven’t had a flagship or top tier phone in that whole time either. Are you talking about actual functionality issues or just theoretical stuff and benchmarks?