2026-03-03 Thinking about a new phone
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We are thinking about buying new phones. Basically it's me, my wife,
and her parents. So we have 4 phones and pass them along for maximum
usage. Right now we have an iPhone 14, 11, 8 and 7. We need to replace
the 7 and 8 soon because they're too old for updates. But now the
question is: Should we keep buying iPhones? The iPhone 7 was released
2016 and I think getting 10 years of use for a phone is great.

I wonder if Fairphone and other options would get us as many years. I
fear that the iPhone might still be our best option. Ugh.

Other things to consider:

> What makes Sailfish OS unique over competitors like GrapheneOS and
> e/OS is that it's not based on the Android Open Source Project, but
> Linux. That means it has no ties to Google—no need for the company
> to “deGoogle” the software … Jolla’s effort is hardly the first to
> push the anti–Big Tech narrative. A wave of other hardware and
> software companies offer a deGoogled experience, whether that’s
> Murena from France and its e/OS privacy-friendly operating system or
> the Canadian GrapheneOS, which just announced a partnership with
> Motorola. At CES earlier this year, the Swiss company Punkt also
> teamed up with ApostrophyOS to deploy its software on the new MC03
> smartphone. -- The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech
> Smartphone

Something to read: The impact of consumer electronics on nature and
biodiversity, by Fairphone.

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