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Fairphone anyone?

Started Nov 2, 2020 | Discussions thread
Artichoke
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Android One vs Symbian

vv50 wrote:

Wilu wrote:

Thus the question: does anybody use the latest Fairphone with the 48MP camera?

if your goal for avoiding android is to have a dumbphone with high-res camera, you can look at a used nokia 808.

my Pureview Nokia 9 runs Android One. a relatively stripped version of Android & while I am sympathetic to avoiding iOS or Android, I think you might find the 808 Nokia a bit less than a dumb phone, running Symbian, which has been discontinued & without development since 2014

Nokia did a great job with the Pureview camera system on the Nokia 9, which delivers 60MP by cleverly linking 5 12 MP sensors with three dedicated to monotone & 2 for colors merged together into a single DNG ...it also allows for adjusting focus post capture & has robust controls ...I believe a 5G model is in the works, so this  model may be further discounted

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