It's not every day that a Youtube legend like Linus Tech Tips roasts your phone. We just had to get our co-founder and product manager Miquel to watch the wh...

I can’t believe some of the points Linus made against the Fairphone, especially given he’s onboard with the same compromises for the Framework laptop. 🤭

  • cyberwolfieEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    What are people using their phones for that require such beefy processing power? I have a Fairphone 4, which presumably is slower than the Fairphone 5, and it is perfectly snappy for all my needs. Actually curious. Is it gaming?

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I dunno I just heard it was slow for general usage.

      But I also wonder why there exists so many phones that target mobile gaming with external fans and all that.

      What games are people playing that require a special gaming phone? Switch emulation or something is the only thing I can think of.

      Last I checked all mobile games ran perfectly fine on everything. I don’t really understand non-casual mobile gaming. If I want to play good games I play on a switch, steam deck, or I just wait until I get home and I play in the way I find most comfortable, i.e. using a mouse and keyboard.

      • cyberwolfieEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Hehe yeah, mobile gaming seems awful to me as well. Never heard about external fans. Seems like going out of your way to have a sub-par gaming experience.

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Asus called their fan (and sometimes water cooled I think) contraption" AeroActive Cooler [rev number here]" I think the phone opens up in some way so the fan (or water) works better. It’s pretty cool technology but seems entirely useless to me at least but I have no idea.

      • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Fairphone 4 is not slow for general usage, but for gaming it can be slow depending on the load, ye.
        Gamecube emulation would be slower than latest and greatest, but those soc’s only have 4 years of support, and thats not up to fairphone’s standards

        Just like any hardware, it all depends what you use it for and what your requirements are.

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Its gaming. I asked this in an old thread before and the response was gaming and emulation. Which is fair if you want the latest and greatest, but general usage on my fairphone 4 is snappy and fine so idk. I dont do gaming on my phone though :)