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Re:Essential Phone, available now by erlend_sh on Friday August 18, 2017 @03:12AM (#15044182)
> The first actually open platform phone is the one that will have longevity

FairPhone is trying to do that, in software, hardware and way beyond: https://shop.fairphone.com/en/

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Re:Essential Phone, available now by cerberusss on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:23AM (#15044476)
A colleague of mine showed me her FairPhone. She then proceeded to disassemble it, right in front of my eyes. She's a biologist and told me that she broke the screen during fieldwork. Just ordered a new screen on the FairPhone site and replaced it herself. Amazing tech.
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Re:Essential Phone, available now by everybodyknows on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:28PM (#15048092)
Fairphone has been pushing into the predictable headwinds, without much help from economy of scale or supportive tech partners:

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/is-it-worth-to-buy-a-fairphone...

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Re:Essential Phone, available now by dwighttk on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:00AM (#15124301)
"recent upgrade to Android 6.0 Marshmallow"

when was that written?

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