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    Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable

    (www.androidcentral.com)
    401 points Bluestein | 18 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.471s | source | bottom
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    godelski ◴[23 Jun 25 16:51 UTC] No.44357661[source]▶
    They mention the Pixel and I just got to say, I wish someone would bring back the fingerprint reader on the back of the phone. That was seriously the best solution. Fastest way to unlock your phone, because no matter how slow the fingerprint reader is you activate it while pulling it out of your pocket. I honestly don't get why people like Face ID more (what I currently use). Someone, please bring this back
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    1. snapplebobapple ◴[23 Jun 25 20:51 UTC] No.44359947[source]▶
    Have you tried phones with it on the power button? That was the best for me by far.
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    2. guappa ◴[23 Jun 25 22:10 UTC] No.44360725[source]▶
    Yeah it's great! I want to put off the screen and instantly after going off, it reads my finger and goes on again!

    Who came up with that idea?

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    3. gertlex ◴[23 Jun 25 22:29 UTC] No.44360853[source]▶
    I'm sure it's manageable with proper software, as I had no such issue back in the day with my Xperia Z5(?) compact.

    (That said, I get similarly cranky about various gestures that just don't reliably work in some cases. I despair of the eventual day they (google in my case) no longer offer the 3 button home row on android phones)

    4. davidmurdoch ◴[23 Jun 25 22:43 UTC] No.44360959[source]▶
    Asus?
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    5. Pfeil ◴[23 Jun 25 23:10 UTC] No.44361149[source]▶
    Reading this on my Fairphone 5 and can't reproduce this issue. But I admit that sometimes I just want to see the lock screen and accidentally unlock the phone. Therefore, I still agree. The back is the better position for the fingerprint reader.
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    6. zozbot234 ◴[24 Jun 25 00:06 UTC] No.44361503[source]▶
    With many phones these days you can suspend by just double-tapping the screen, or the status bar. Sometimes this works for resume too, other phones require a physical button press.
    7. bigstrat2003 ◴[24 Jun 25 00:19 UTC] No.44361585[source]▶
    My current phone has that and it's the absolute worst design choice I have ever seen in a phone. It is constantly triggering when I'm trying to lock the screen. I can't understand what the designers at Nokia were thinking, truly awful hardware design.
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    8. mhitza ◴[24 Jun 25 00:35 UTC] No.44361699[source]▶
    Same thing with Fairphone 4. It's either too dirty to register on first touch (the smaller surface doesn't help), or I unlock the screen when I lock the phone.
    9. iforgotpassword ◴[24 Jun 25 02:51 UTC] No.44362470{3}[source]▶
    It rarely happens right when locking the phone, mosty because I already developed the habit to press the power button not with the tip of my thumb but lower down, where the joint is. But when shoving it back in my pocket it still happens on a regular basis, even when I try to avoid it. The button is just located in such a way that it's very hard to avoid touching it while doing so. Then I pull it out a while later to find I changed 20 settings and made a dozen in-app purchases. ;)
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    10. imp0cat ◴[24 Jun 25 05:49 UTC] No.44363176{3}[source]▶
    Can you use double tap to wake when you just need to check the screen? This will also reduce the mechanical stress on the physical unlock button.
    11. campl3r ◴[24 Jun 25 06:56 UTC] No.44363523[source]▶
    This is the best option by far, sadly can't find it anymore
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    12. 4k93n2 ◴[24 Jun 25 07:37 UTC] No.44363747[source]▶
    its probably more of a software issue. ive had 3 phones (sony, samsung) with sensors in the power button and never had a problem
    13. Y-bar ◴[24 Jun 25 08:21 UTC] No.44363963[source]▶
    My iPad (and also the iPad Air) has a fingerprint sensor on it's power button and it's very nice.
    14. guappa ◴[24 Jun 25 09:13 UTC] No.44364228{3}[source]▶
    No, one of the new "nokia" that run stock android.
    15. robocat ◴[24 Jun 25 09:48 UTC] No.44364417{4}[source]▶
    The digitizer chip vendors get a percentage of every app purchase.
    16. izacus ◴[24 Jun 25 12:07 UTC] No.44365256[source]▶
    Well, foldables have them. Sadly they're the opposite of affordable and sustainable.
    17. snapplebobapple ◴[24 Jun 25 13:20 UTC] No.44365965{3}[source]▶
    that also never happened on any of the string of cheap chinese phones I installed lineageos on before deciding the world was sketchy enough to mean grapheneos was the minimum viable level of hardening for my phone. I miss the power button fingerprint scanner dearly.
    18. sierra1011 ◴[24 Jun 25 20:39 UTC] No.44370779[source]▶
    Coming from a Pixel ~5 to a Fairphone 5, this is by far my biggest gripe. Constantly finding it unlocked because it unlocks as soon as I lock it.