There are websites that can forward packages for you. IIRC I ordered my phone from vireo and they were able to ship to Canada, but when I needed spare parts I used a forwarding business and ordered straight from FP. Maybe forward2me or something like that.
No idea :/ I’m not in the market for a new phone so I haven’t been paying attention to what’s out there.
I’m hoping fairphone can/does get better at updating older devices before I need to get another phone so I can stick with them.
I have gotten security updates and occasional bugfixes but it does feel like they’ve done the bare minimum to fulfill their promise of supporting phones for a long time.
Compared to the flagships of the time it was pretty noticeable. When it was new it seemed like the camera was maybe 3 or 4 generations behind. You could probably find some comparisons for the new generation of fairphone and see what its like. It works for my use case because I bring out an actual camera for photography.
My current main gripe is android auto and bluetooth (separately) disconnect randomly when I’m in a vehicle. Usually comes back on its own but I have to refresh the screen. To give FP the benefit of the doubt it could be a problem with my aftermarket stereo, but its a decent brand.
Currently writing this on a fairphone 4.
I love the hardware aside from the camera, but that was a sacrifice I knew I was making going in to it.
My big complaint is the software. It has never really been fully stable. During the best patches things work most of the time, but there have also been some pretty bad bugs. Again, I knew the updates would be slower and bugs might take longer to fix due to a smaller Dev team but I didn’t expect it to be this bad. It does feel like they just gave up on the 4 to work on the 5 and 6. At this point I’m 2 major android versions behind.
I love that when I broke the screen I was able to replace it in 5 minutes, and I want to be a big supporter of fairphone. I even went to the trouble of importing the phone and replacement parts to Canada.
I don’t know if this is also an issue with custom ROMS but if this doesn’t change I don’t know that I’ll get another when the time comes.
We actually get 220V to the house that gets split up into two different phases of 110. Kitchens and laundry rooms get 220 for ranges and dryers. IIRC the gas appliances are because of marketing and lobbying but I could be wrong.
I actually liked not having a minimap in BL1. I missed it at first coming from BL2 but it made me get to know the areas a lot better, which in turn made the game feel more like a connected world.
BL2 felt more like a sequence of levels than an open world.
This could be due to other choices in the game design but I think the minimap plays a big part in it.
No, some resellers ship straight to north America. FP just doesn’t officially support using it here. They can’t guarantee it will work with all the cell networks, but I haven’t had any problems.