(I would like the answer to be yes, and I would like the answer to be yes for many more phones and OS combos. I don't think it is.)
-Exhausted Apple user also wanting easier authentication
Side button sensors work OK, too but I have much more misses on my supposedly more "modern" side button sensor phone than I ever had on old Pixels or any old iPhone with a home button sensor. I assume this is due to the size and general shape of a side button in comparison to an iPhone-style home button or old-Pixel-style back sensor which are bigger, indented and finger-guiding.
You can also do this with under-screen fingerprint readers which are excellent these days.
I loved the rear fingerprint reader on my old Nexus 5X.
Plus, as others are pointing out, there's additional benefits
I'd love to use the old phone for so many reasons, but the lack of updates has rendered it useless. No Lineage or Graphene for that one either.
Seconded, vehemently.-
My humble, tiny, circa-2014 Elephone E1 (RIP) was unsurpassed.-
Me wonders if the "onscreen reader" is not an integration-cost cutting measure, as it saves one part?
Because good luck using that fingerprint sensor while wearing gloves, e.g. during garden work, while on a motorcycle ride, or in winter.
[0] https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-linux-6-1-android-15-...
AFAIK outside the Pinephone and Liberem 5 no hardware manufacturers explicitly target this and only 10 year+ old Qualcomm (other vendors such as Freescale tend to behave much better) SOCs have open source graphics drivers because the SOC vendors themselves often refuse to support their own hardware.
Google is able to do this because they build their own SOCs (probably because they got tired of being jerked around by Qualcomm) but still don't merge their stuff upstream (or at least they don't last I checked.)
Starting 20th of June this year (so 3 days ago) every new phone released in European Union will need to have software updates for at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market. This might be the first one released under new regulations. Also looking at Fairphone's history it looks like they really support their phones for a long time.
This is why using SOCs with poor support and closed drivers like this is a terrible idea.
Many mainline supported SOCs are unavailable to a company like Fairphone, which only produces a tiny amount of phones (less than 50k for the latest and greatest model). CPU manufacturers aren't going to waste time sending their top-end chips to some small company when Samsung can pay more per CPU and can take shipping containers full of them. That's also why F(x)tec phones come out with such outdated processors. Small companies will have to make do with whatever niche products are for sale in low quantities.
GPU: Adreno 810
- 895-1050
- 256 shaders
CPU cores: 8
- 1x2500 (Cortex-A720)
- 3x2400 (Cortex-A720)
- 4x1800 (Cortex-A520)
Fingers are still crossed that the upcoming announcement mentions other countries.
I can't blame them, I just wish it were different.
article doesn't mention if it does, does not
strangecasts•5h ago
About the only thing I'd ding Fairphone on is not communicating earlier that they were having trouble getting Android 14 out to the FP4s, but the security patches have been consistent.
(Okay I'm also dinging them on getting rid of the headphone jack, yes I know it's a lost cause... )
onli•4h ago
A shame really.
exabrial•4h ago
lawn•4h ago
I could probably use it for a few more years but I may upgrade to the 6 if the speakers/microphone are better (and to support the company).
bombela•4h ago
Wired headphones still have better sound quality. Don't need charging. Don't break with software update. But because of that it means less consumption.
Think about how insane it is that companies can remove the phone jack and glue in the battery with the very obvious goal of planned obsolescence. And this is legal.
KingOfCoders•4h ago
jack_pp•4h ago
Also wired headphones are a very niche market. If you care so much there are wireless DACs that can feed your wired headphones better than any phone in history.
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