I also found out a few other things that have changed:

• They now use Torx T5 screws
• The backcover and battery are now fixed with these screws
• The battery uses a dedicated connector
• Parts of the backcover now require a pick
• SIM/SD now sit at the bottom in a dedicated slot and don't require the removal of the backcover.
• The volume buttons got replaced by the "moments" button and are now on the left

IMHO this is kind of a downgrade in repairability as you now need custom tools (not everyone has a T5 screwdriver at home). Moving the volume buttons to the other side is also kind of weird and unexpected as most (non Apple) phones have them on the right...

Why does The Fairphone (Gen. 6) use USB-2?

In order to make the device more affordable, we explored how we could best balance our spec choices with the least possible impact on user experience. Going from USB-3 to USB-2 was one of them.

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/24463093338898-The-Fairphone-Gen-6-FAQ

I just checked my phone and the up/down speed for files is roughly 40MB/s despite having a USB 3 connection.

USB 2 has a max. transfer rate (under optimal conditions) of 60MB/s, so I think when the phone storage improves a bit or the cable is a bit longer it will likely become a bottleneck.

Also note that there are other applications than transfering files which might need more bandwidth.

To be fair it really doesn't make much of a difference but USB 3 is now the standard for a century and has been around since 2008 so I somewhere expect a 600€ phone to also have it.

Compared to the Fairphone 5 it has some improvements but also a few downsides:

Pro:

• It's a bit smaller (_{4mm) and lighter (}20g)
• Slightly better camera (future tests will tell how much better)
• 120 Hz display
• More RAM and storage (although I feel that the previous 6GB/128GB option was also sufficient for most users)
• WiFi 6E Tri-Band (however you will likely never need this speed)
• Bluetooth 5.4
• Slightly larger battery

Con:

• Backpanel now requires a screwdriver
• Display has less resolution/PPI
• Performance of processor will likely be nearly identical to predecessor (however it's more efficient and modern)
• Downgrade to USB 2
• 600€

My conclusion: Overall the improvements are ok, however just releasing the Fairphone 5 with a newer SoC might have been the better/more cost effective choice. Sacrificing display resolution for 120 Hz feels also quite wrong. 600€ is very pricy for a phone like this. Cutting some premium features away like the 120 Hz display or a bit of RAM and storage (that you can extend anyway with an SD card) might have saved enough to get the launch price down to somewhere near 500€ which would make it accessible for a wider audience.

Would be funny to know how the supposed 14TWh savings compare to the cost required to introduce/maintain these labels. And by costs I mean overall costs with everything related to it.

Recent IUCN Red List assessments for North American fireflies have identified species with heightened extinction risk in the US, with 18 taxa categorized as threatened with extinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly#cite_ref-40

... optimise the use and recycling of critical raw materials

Does anyone have an idea how this helps with recycling?

They have 5 models listed for Google

Touché. However this doesn't change the fact that the interface is absolutely useless.

When I'm searching for Google I just get the model ids:

• GUR25
• GEC77
• GZC4K
• GTF7P
• G6GPR

None of these phones have the word "Pixel" anywhere and I have to look the market name up on a 3rd party website.

It's hundreds of cycles. So 1500 cycles.

Seriously? Maybe they should include the unit of measurement or just print two extra zeros.

Again these points just highlight that this utterly unusable for a normal user.

Whilst I get the idea the implementation is currently unusable:

So I filtered for "Battery user-replacable" and found 117 smartphones (out of ~500). This is a straight up lie because all these phones are glued together (nearly all are IP68) meaning that you need some special tools.

It lacks a lot of phone models. I couldn't find any Google Pixel or Fairphone.

The "Battery endurance in cycles" (number of charge/discharge cycles a battery can withstand until its usable electrical capacity has reached 80 % of its rated capacity) attribute is completely broken: It never seems to exceed 15? I had phones for years that withstood hundreds/thousands of battery cycles and the battery still nearly behaved like it's new and you're telling me the maximum number is 15??? Did you guys just stop testing after 15?

Also "with regard to energy labelling" what is this labelling about? Energy? Ok then why are there values about the phones "Repeated free fall reliability" or IP protection inside there?

The whole thing looks way to intransparent and useless for the average phone buyer and definetly needs some improvement...

General labelling about repairability/phone lifetime (e.g. receives updates for X years, replacement parts are avilable for X years, can install another OS, can replace battery without external tools, etc) without a overall score that merges all aspects would be a lot better and useful IMHO.

Have you had a look at your BIOS into the "Fan step up/down time" options?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moth-lamp

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model

Last month I tried to unlock a Motorola phone. Guess what: There is no option to unlock the bootloader because it's one of the models that can't.

The year before a Huawei phone: I had to disassemble half the device to shortcircut something while running a custom made software on the PC.

Yeah now try to get an average user doing this... good luck.

And I'm not even scratching the part where some of your devices hardware is not working properly because the closed source firmware is not available.

A quick look at which recent phones (since 2022) can install LineageOS: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ Just 35 phones (Pixels exluded), including only a single Samsung phone!

Now compare that to installing Windows/Linux on a PC where you literally plugin a USB and hit install...

I would probably hold off on buying a phone specifically for the purposes of installing a custom ROM on it... Custom ROM installation is generally extremely simple...

Hahaha, nice joke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootloader_unlocking#Android

Summary for people who don't like to read for 10 minutes:

Only Google Pixels are currently affected

from Calyx's post:

• Google did not publish any device-specific source code for supported, modern Pixel devices.
• In previous years, Google released full device trees alongside new Android versions. This allowed developers to build and boot AOSP on Pixel hardware relatively easily.
• With Android 16, only the platform/framework code has been released. The device trees are missing, at least for now.

So let's don't panic and just wait a few days until more information is available...

So I just had a look at your robots.txt:

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User-Agent: *
  Disallow: /login
  Disallow: /login_reset
  Disallow: /settings
  Disallow: /create_community
  Disallow: /create_post
  Disallow: /create_private_message
  Disallow: /inbox
  Disallow: /setup
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /password_change
  Disallow: /search/
  Disallow: /modlog
  Crawl-delay: 60

  

You explicitly allow searching your content by bots... That's likely one of the reasons why you get bot traffic.

A yes, a public dns resolver funded by taxpayers money and nothing of it is open source...

Sounds like a massive waste of money to me. Just give someone like Mullvad (they already have a DNS service that is open source) that money instead of trying to be another shitty DNS Resolver.

Also the company behind this looks incredibly scummy and their products are mostly buzzword-bullshit. The whole company is based on selling a DNS blocklist for as much money as possible.

Also: https://www.whalebone.io/aura-for-consumers

People want to be safe online. They are even willing to pay for it. They just want their telco to offer them a smooth way to get there. Common cybersecurity products struggle with low adoption rates due to the need for downloads. Whalebone Aura requires no installation or updates and activates with a single click.

That's sounds a lot like the ISP is implementing some kind of deep network inspection "to protect you from the internet"... aka censoring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents

Apart from the 80% of the entries that are basically "Crashed during bad weather" - my personal highlights:

... breaks loose from its mooring during a storm and is blown over the English Channel; after sightings in Wales and Ireland and a brief touchdown in Belfast, the airship was blown out over the Atlantic Ocean and is never seen again.

Zeppelin LZ 8 Deutschland II (brand new) is caught by a wind gust while being walked out of its hangar and damaged beyond repair after it smashes on the roof of the hangar.

... the airship, weighed down with gold and burgundy paint, reached 600 feet altitude before beginning an unplanned right descending turn, making a "controlled descent" into a garbage dump, impaling the blimp on a pine tree, coming down just a quarter-mile from the site of the Hindenburg's 1937 demise.

... suffers an intentional mid-air collision with a radio-controlled airplane.

Check that "Filter lists > Privacy > Block outsider intrusion into LAN" is enabled and you should be fine