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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Yeah the price drop of new FP5s brought down the secondhand price a looot. The FP4 has only been out for 4 years but mine and the ones in my family are working perfectly for now. I dont expect the 5 to be any different in that regard.

    You can replace every single part (battery, usbc port, camera, screen, frame, mainboard) but the screen isnt cheap so get yourself a case and a screen protecter. If you treat your device with respect, it will last you for 7+ years easily with 1-2 battery swaps depending on your battery life expectations and usage.

    Also these bois are a bit thicc and heavy, they are function over form devices not fashion statements.

    The reselling strategy is not cool imo, because it enables the phone industry to treat these devices as disposable.





  • I would never recommend buying a used pixel for this purpose. They are very closed and unrepairable in terms of hardware so you will run into battery life issues. I have been degoogling phones for people for years and the pixels always get hardware issues.

    If you are okay with secondhand, get an FP4 or FP5 depending on your budget. Then you can just replace the battery if it starts getting bad. The FP4 is gonna stop getting security updates in 2 years tho. So if you want something more long term get an FP5, those will get updates until 2031. You can get them for like 400€ if you bid on them.