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minus-squareanamethatisnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoAs I liked the “fair” part of Fairphone I gave them a shot and bought the FP4. I cannot recommend them. The camera app sucks, but by grabbing a GCAM APK from xda-developers and using that instead you can get acceptable photo quality. Since Android 12 FP4 has a screen brightness bug that makes the phone rather unusable outside on a sunny day. This is the deal breaker as the problem hasn’t been solved yet. https://forum.fairphone.com/t/random-screen-dimming-while-brightness-slider-stays-at-100-after-a12-update/93195
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoPersonally I’m not a big picture-taker, so it doesnt bother me one bit. For me though the main draw of the FP was the repairability
minus-square𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago The camera app sucks, but by grabbing a GCAM APK from xda-developers and using that instead you can get acceptable photo quality I don’t think any FP user uses the stock camera app 😅 personally I use both Opencamera and Nikita Gcam. Gcam’s night vision is crazy!
minus-squareCinnamon3431@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoyou underestimate normies sticking to defaults
minus-squareGlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoI don’t think a normie is buying this phone
As I liked the “fair” part of Fairphone I gave them a shot and bought the FP4. I cannot recommend them.
The camera app sucks, but by grabbing a GCAM APK from xda-developers and using that instead you can get acceptable photo quality.
Since Android 12 FP4 has a screen brightness bug that makes the phone rather unusable outside on a sunny day. This is the deal breaker as the problem hasn’t been solved yet.
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/random-screen-dimming-while-brightness-slider-stays-at-100-after-a12-update/93195
Personally I’m not a big picture-taker, so it doesnt bother me one bit. For me though the main draw of the FP was the repairability
I don’t think any FP user uses the stock camera app 😅 personally I use both Opencamera and Nikita Gcam. Gcam’s night vision is crazy!
you underestimate normies sticking to defaults
I don’t think a normie is buying this phone