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Fairphone anyone?

Started Nov 2, 2020 | Discussions thread
OP Wilu Contributing Member • Posts: 521
Re: Android One vs Symbian

I ended up with a Nokia 225 4G (I think). The phone is free of iOS or Android, and it has a lot of bells and whistles (compared to my previous phone, that is): colour display with a customizable background image, calculator, torch, fm radio, a camera, and what not. In other words: it is a feature phone that does more than I need (but not everything I want - a DAB radio would have made sense, for the fm radio will be useless in a couple years, where I live). The camera has a whopping 0.3 (yes, this is correct) MP resolution, which may or may not be enough to capture a QR code; time will tell. The image quality is so bad that it is well suited for taking abstract pictures. If you want something more conventional you are better off taking a picture of an image on your computer screen.

Bottom line is, it is a basic cell phone that I think I will like. It could be a really cool cell phone if it had a better camera, a digital radio, and a bit more options to be customized by the user ...and the ability to use the internet via WLAN.

The funny thing is that I haven't used it yet, except for playing around - for some reason the 2G net is still working here, despite the providers having planned to shut it down by the end of 2020. For sentimental reasons and because I have not yet been particularly keen to cut the mini SIM card down to nano SIM card size I am currently still using my 20 or so year old dumb phone...

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