• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    29 months ago

    Dont they just not want to support US for now?

    More that US Carriers deliberately stick to non-global-standard frequencies in order to raise the cost of outside competition.

    You most likely can get a decent phone manufactured in decent conditions if you want

    If you can, I haven’t seen it. Modular phone development in the states has been dead for ages, thanks to the cartelization of domestic manufacturers. And US manufacturers have been exiting China in large part because they can get even lower labor prices in poorer nations across the South Pacific.

    Little peasant with “sticks” is a bit hypocritical

    Here’s the original comic

    • @Bondrewd
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      29 months ago

      But you can use them with t-mobile based on a faq about fairphone 4 (most likely 5 as well). That makes sense since they are a german company and Im not sure they would make it that hard on themselves.

      See amazon.de. I switched delivery to US and both gigaset and fairphone can be ordered there. There is also teracube which is US based. Also there is Volla which is based on gigaset phones.

      Here’s the original comic

      The jury is still out on that :P.