Does the Fairphone gen. 6 support Desktop Mode / external displays over USB-C?
forum.fairphone.com
So sad. 🙁 Nice and clean design but it’s clearly a downgrade in some places. At least FP5 is not obsolete, it’s just an alternative to FP6.

Despite all the other compromises with the FF6, I still was ready to buy it until I noticed the USB-C 2.0. Which means no Android Desktop and significantly slower data transfer than the USB-C 3.0 in FF5. The linked Discussion thread from the Fairphone forum has some interesting additional points.

Is this a dealbreaker for you? (It is for me, I’m ordering a different phone today…)

  • python@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    It’s such a weird choice considering that they want the FF6 to be “The Fairphone” that you’ll keep for like a decade, but then cutting one of the biggest new things that Android 16 offers :/ There was speculation that they’d sell a replaceable USB-C 3.1 port, but people on the forum say that just changing the port won’t help if the Motherboard doesn’t support it. Really sucks.