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. 🤭

  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 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·
      7 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.

      • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        7 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·
          7 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.