• unexposedhazard
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    9 months ago

    This sounds like very bad news imo.

    To be more than a blip on the radar, Fairphone needs to go way past 80% of customer needs. Hendriks says people want to make a contribution (to sustainability), but they don’t want to sacrifice everything else in the process.

    This sounds like the new CEO wants to sacrifice sustainability for popularity. The current gen fairphones are everything they need to be imo. There is barely a need for improvements on the hardware side and its supported very well by custom roms.

    To achieve that feat, Fairphone is more closely collaborating with Google and Qualcomm.

    This could mean anything but i dont think collaborating closely with google is what Fairphones need more of tbh.

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        9 months ago

        No. They do design work for chips but they do not have any fabs to actually make chips. Samsung and in the future TSMC are the ones actually making the chips for google.

        But yeah maybe they just want some advice on SoC design. The Pixel phones do have decent hardware i must admit.

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          9 months ago

          While I agree it seems unlikely that they’d use google designed chips I don’t think Qualcomm has their own fabs either.

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          9 months ago

          I think it could be because Google may offer them quite a bit longer hardware support. They had to go with some industrial SoC for the FP5 to get Qualcomm to offer even a half decent hardware support cycle.