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Fairphone 6+ is now official and coming to the US (m.gsmarena.com)
submitted 5 days ago by the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TLDR: it's a spec bump for the processor and RAM. One question I personally had is does that mean the motherboard is backward compatible with the og FP6?

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[–] merci3@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I understand the pricing issue. But isn't "dropping numerous times and still keep working for years" the exact benefit and use case of a Fairphone?