Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Fairphone just kicked the industry's a**!" video.

  1. EU is also mandating all phones have user-replaceable batteries by 2027, so that's a start
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  2. North America uses different cell frequencies, necessitating a different radio chipset. Plus anyone with complaints will be doing transoceanic shipping, where regular air shipments goes against their pro-environment goals on top of increasing restrictions on lithium batteries going by plane.
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  3. That's if it's proven to be a domestic manufacture, and not rebranded pre-ban stockpile. Strangely there's more news about this in Western media than in Chinese, pointing to deception.
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  4. I'm still putting along with an equally old LG V20. Sadly even with FP5 there's still no direct replacement for all its hardware features that I regularly use.
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  5. It doesn't help they only ship within Europe too
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