Every single person I’ve seen defending it has been a lemmy.ml user which from my understanding is not too dissimilar from hexbears

I love that without fail every single person in this thread defending hexbears is from ml with the same pronoun tag format every single hexbear seems to have

Almost like they’re hexbear alts or something

I have just bought myself a second hand fairphone 4. Not on eos, I might switch but Google pay contactless is important to me and I don’t believe it works on custom ROMs

Unfortunately what work pays for is an entirely imaginary device

Also, I don’t want my personal stuff on a device I don’t own

I did see a couple of surprisingly cheap foldables on ebay, but I’m still somewhat wary of foldables and I ended up finding a fairphone 4 for a pretty good price

Alot

I get that, but I didn’t use a lot or alot in my comment. Did you reply to the wrong person?

Unfortunately tap and pay is the one feature keeping me from using custom roms/rooting/linux. Very much like having multiple options incase my card doesn’t work, forgotten my wallet etc

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My S21 is the one to unfortunately kick the bucket. It could potentially be repaired but I expect the cost of repairing it is going to be comparable to just buying a new phone.

If I can fix the USB C port I can at least still use it for DeX or as an android tv somewhere I’m sure

I hear a lot of good things about the older pixels, but they only have a couple years of security updates left and a couple months of android updates so it doesn’t feel like a smart decision to buy them now

Perfect, I’ll never need to worry about it running out of battery on me

Fair, I’ve heard iphones and especially ipads are actually decent.

I don’t think at least on a phone I could deal with iOS though seems a little backwards and restricted

Personally I’ve only really stuck with wireless headphones anyway since before they removed the jack so doesn’t bother me that much

How often do you find yourself needing to charge it?

I can get behind that, that’s kind of the direction I’m leaning in too.

I tend to go the other way with that and buy the tougher phones so they last me a bit longer though, I’d rather pay 600 every 3 years and have a somewhat nicer phone than 200 every 1 year and have to put up with a crappy one

I love the idea of fairphones but from what I’ve gathered they’re kinda crap for the price if you don’t count the moral benefits aren’t they?

Do they do video over USB C/thunderbolt? Am quite interested in having a device I can plug in and use as a desktop in a pinch

I’m leaning towards samsung again because of DeX and an absurdly high battery life in a couple of their phones, but samsung don’t seem much better than apple as a company