Did anyone here on Fedi get themselves a Fairphone 6? Can anyone tell me about their experience with that phone?

EDIT: Thank you all, got enough replies and on hands experience reports to make up my mind.
@Erpel I do not, but please tag me in the answer once you get it.

Especially wondering about the switch (and if it is possible to change the action)
@kura I'd you can wait might be able to answer this question in December... (when I get my Christmas bonus)
@kura @Erpel Here are the default options for the SWITCH (in system settings). "Fairphone Moments" lets you customize the choice of apps it will show. /u
@WeAreFairphone @Erpel less flexible then I hoped, but still great.
I do wonder if Tasker can directly interface with it. And how custom Roms (eg e) detect it as well. Thanks for your input.
Fairphone 6 review: So much better!

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@Erpel i looked it up and it seems kind of interesting, is there any specific reason why you're interested in it?
@[email protected] thinking about getting one. My FP4 is almost four years old and I might have someone who would take it over from me.
@Erpel I basically already decided to get one rather sooner than later (If it weren't for the money, the order would be out today ๐Ÿ˜ ).
I'm quite happy with the FP3 so I'm not worried about the 6...
#fairphone
@Erpel I have one. The camera isn't amazing, but it's perfectly fine and takes decent photos. The battery life is great (1.5-2 days with heavy use). I added a 1TB SD card, which I've been filling with my music. I'm running android, and it seems perfectly capable. And I use the moments switch as a do not disturb slider when I go to bed.
@Erpel i switched from an iphone to the fairphone 5. I'm actually surprised by how little I miss.
@Erpel Better than boosting, I suggest adding appropriate tags: #FP6 #Fairphone6

@Erpel Yes, here! I got mine in early July, and have been using it as my primary phone since. I'm happy with it so far! I switched from a Pixel 6a, so maybe easiest to compare it to that:

  • The battery lasts just as long, if not a bit longer (at least compared to the somewhat aged battery of my 6a before).
  • The camera is probably a slight downgrade, but still good enough for my purposes.
  • I'm not using Fairphone Moments (lime switch thingy), but instead set the switch to simply control the DND mode, and I love how smoothly that works.
  • The placement of the side buttons took some getting used to: with the volume buttons on the left I kept triggering screenshots (vol down + power) by accident with the way I used to hold my old phone. I eventually figured that out though.
  • I love the combined fingerprint reader and power button, very convenient.
  • Performance is nice and smooth for daily use, browsing, social media, watching YouTube, etc. I don't play games, so can't really say how it performs in that area.
  • One minor issue I still run into sometimes: under certain lighting conditions the automatic brightness of the display will go all the way down and I have to increase it again manually, and it doesn't seem to learn that properly.

If you have specific questions, feel free to ask! Overall, it's not in the "premium" category, but I'd say it's a perfectly fine phone that does what a phone needs to do, and I'd make that purchase again. (Hopefully I won't have to for many years.)

@kianga @Erpel What's the trick for avoiding screenshots, how do I need to hold it?
Teach me senpai, pls. 

@schmittlauch @Erpel 

Hold it veeeery carefully with your left hand so the gap between your thumb and palm is just where the volume buttons are. (I still take screenshots sometimes...)

@Erpel I have one. It works well as a replacement for Fairphone 3+.

It's fast and the camera has improved.

Of very minor negatives: I accidentally press the "volume down" button when handling it (it's where the power button used to be), the switch isn't very useful for me (but can enable "do not disturb").

I'm not sure if the sound quality is better, it's different.

@Erpel I have one. I'm just posting from it.

I love it. It lays well in my hands. It has a great finish.

I bought one with stock android, but was able to deactivate almost all apps. it didn't ship with netflix and spotify, etc., luckily.

The only downside was that it apparentlx doesn't have external display support on the USB port. But I'm not using it for that.

The extra hardware switch is awesome and I use it for airplane mode.

Feel free to ask me more!

@Erpel I have one for a couple of weeks now. The one with the google os. But moving to e-os soon. Works nicely, a bit bulky. Still having some trouble with the volume keys opposites to the power button, made a lot of screenshots ๐Ÿ˜€.
@andrethemac @Erpel re buttons: This, especially if you use their official bumper.

@Erpel Back ordered since June with no status update. Hopefully shipping soon? If you place a new order, expect it to take a while.

I'm in the USA, not sure if it's better elsewhere.

@Erpel I have one since ~1 week or so. Bought the ungoogled /e/OS/ version.
All in all a good phone and an improvement to my previous Sony Xperia 10 III, although no telephoto lens. ROM still as a few bearable rough edges.
Battery lasts more than a day but not the 2 days for me. Feels snappy.
Things I do not like:
- position of power button vs. volume buttons, I regularly press both when just wanting to switch it on
- just has slow USB 2.0, no video out
@Erpel If I had not needed the phone that urgently, I'd also have considered a Shiftphone 8.1 which has slightly nicer hardware components. I also had the chance to briefly try one.
Downside: even larger and ships by the end of October at the earliest.

@Erpel my 3 good, 3 bad and 3 uglies:

+ Great battery life
+ The switch is reprogrammable to do other things (apart from the moments thing) like DND, A flashlight (what I'm using), volume off, and some more
+ The fingerprint sensor is very fast

- The fingerprint sensor is very sensitive, causing me to accidentally unlock the phone while putting it in my pocket hahah
- The phone gets very hot while fast charging
- The bug that randomly turns the refresh rate is very annoying, but it's known and will be fixed someday (I hope)

~ Performance is fine, but less than what you would would expect from a 600 euro phone (but it's good enough for me
~ The camera is a bit of a downgrade compared to the OPNord, but eh, I'm not a big photo taking birb x>
~ Android auto is a bit buggy, if you care about that (there's a bug with connecting it, but I've reported it to customer support)

@Erpel @martijn didn't you get one?
@max @Erpel correct. It's awesome. I have the green one with android, and the protective cover plus privacy screen. Totally worth it. The power button opposed to the volume button is a pain, keep taking screenshots. But let's see if they will be able to fix that in software
@Erpel I'm also interested in experience reports, although I should stick to my FP4 for a couple more years.

Hard for me as a nerd to control my enthusiasm about new models for the sake of the envirmonment.

@Erpel no experience

thick and heavy, probably

@Erpel I did. I went from an iPhone to the FP6 with /e/OS. It's not all smooth sailing and I've had issues with a few apps. The camera is also bad compared to my iPhone. But, I'm happy to be almost completely degoogled and deappled ๐Ÿ˜†
@Erpel Writing this reply on one with /e/OS. As other people wrote, the positions of the power button and the volume buttons lead to many involuntary screenshots. The sound is sub par to the Samsung A3 I had before, and it lacks an audio jack port, but that seems to be a thing for all new phones today. The brightness sensor does not seem to work correctly sometimes. Other than that, the phone works really well. Lots of battery time, no hardware problems so far.
@Erpel @Techaltar has a review about this device
https://youtu.be/-ghki_O5Ukc
Fairphone 6 review: So much better!

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@Erpel I'm on a small server so I can't see the replies - what did you decide out of curiosity?
@marz didn't decided yet. But have enough "material" to read through. even a review video
@Erpel
Tweakers.net did an extensive review (in Dutch), weak points: speaker and vibration thingy, further quite positive. Worthwhile an auto translation.
@Erpel and your decision? Enquiring minds and all...

@Erpel I'm typing this on a #fairphonegen6 with #e_osยน that I installed myself.
I like it. Bright screen, camera a lot better than my old #Fairphone3Plus, great battery life, smooth and fast UI.
I did not use of the mode button yet.
I got the bumper which makes it quite big, and the finger loop backside which seems OK, but I'm not yet used to it (never had similar gadgets before).
My wife's "handbag loop" thingie survived less than two weeks.

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ยน) there is no good hashtag for /e/-OS.