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de-Googled Fairphone 4 coming to US is rare good tech news for the privacy conscious.
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For those considering getting this phone for sustainability reasons, just a reminder that the most sustainable option is to keep the phone you have until there's something actually wrong with it
I mean, as long as I chose to return/donate/hand-down/upcycle my current phone (whatever prevents it from going to a landfill) shouldnt it be fine?
If you have a plan for your current phone, then yea it's not much different. I think you're touching on the larger point at hand, because individuals have a miniscule fraction of a percent when it comes to things like e-waste. The overproduction of electronics is a much larger portion of e-waste