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Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts (shop.fairphone.com)
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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Can anyone recommend this? Is the camera any good?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Basically nobody has this in hand yet. Its lighter (193g) and shorter (156mm) than the previous ones which is nice. Harder glass surface (Corning 7i) so less scratches. Its still thick tho at 9.6mm but i dont mind that. If gsmarena is correct, then they didnt include video output over USBC for some fucking dumb reason this time. Ridiculous.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Good question. I was just reading the article about it on The Verge, which mentions:

On the back, you’ll find a 50MP main camera and a 13MP ultrawide camera, while the front has a 32MP hole-punch camera for selfies and video calls. That’s a significant step down from the Fairphone 5, which used 50MP sensors on all three of its cameras.

No mention of camera quality, though, as it's basically a press release post and not a hands-on or review. I wish this would be available in the US for a fair price.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

4000x3000 (12MP) is completely fine for a secondary camera imo. 32MP for the front cam is more than enough too. Upwards of 12MP, the denoising and optics are much more important than the resolution.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

32 MP is absurdly much, resized down to 10 MP you are not going to see a difference.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't had an FP6 in my hands yet, but I've been using FP since the Fairphone 2, am currently using the FP4 and besides the ethics in sourcing their materials and manufacturing (which they genuinely attempt to provide, and while there is no ethical consumption in capitalism, there are still degrees of fucked-upness.), I do enjoy the repairability, longevity and long-term support. They are also decently supported by de-googled-android and even pure Linux phone operating systems, if you want to experiment there, and come without a lot of bloat that nowadays is ubiquitous with most smartphones.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a bit of info on these Linux mobile OSs? The FP5 didn't convince me as a main phone when I needed a new one last year, but if it can take a real Linux distro it could be a cool toy.