EDIT: Thank you all, got enough replies and on hands experience reports to make up my mind.
@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:
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.)
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 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 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 no experience
thick and heavy, probably
@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.