It's FOSSA surprise collab just happened.
slamrI have a Fairphone and the biggest gripe I have with it is Android. I still can't believe Fairphone haven't read the room and provided and alternative privacy based option out of the box without having to flash firmware and risk bricking your phone. this is interesting
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺I use a Fairphone 4.
The Fairphone 6 can be ordered with Android or /e/OS .
https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system
yeh I know but that means buying a new phone again. I'm on FP5 and probably won't buy another one cause they have missed the boat for too long on this and not listened to their users who have asked for a privacy based OS out of the box for years
good for you. I had the FP4 before this and found it just slowed down and became annoying to use. granted part of that was down to me however when the camera stopped working completely I gave up on it. I don't want to spend hours rebuilding my phone and fiddling to make it work well but I do want privacy and you couldn't have both....but hopefully times are changing
M-A.Delsuc@slamr @johnlogic @itsfoss
Maybe you should have searched a little more when you bought your FP5.
I have a FP3 running e/os , I bought it with e/os on it. I bought it 5 years ago (running version 1.09 at that time I think) , even before the FP4 existed.
I bought it directly on the web with e/os, I did not flash anything !!
It is am now running e/os 3.5 - not a single problem, except a screen an a battery change.
The company that sold the FP3 to me changed its name and is now murena, but I got a full support all along.
Maybe you should have searched a little more when you bought your FP5.
I have a FP3 running e/os , I bought it with e/os on it. I bought it 5 years ago (running version 1.09 at that time I think) , even before the FP4 existed.
I bought it directly on the web with e/os, I did not flash anything !!
It is am now running e/os 3.5 - not a single problem, except a screen an a battery change.
The company that sold the FP3 to me changed its name and is now murena, but I got a full support all along.
@ma_delsuc @johnlogic @itsfoss
are you able to run apps on it? my FP4 just became unusable
@slamr @johnlogic @itsfoss oh yes.
Except the GPS app (maps) has stopped working a few releases ago.
I don't care, I use Comaps which is very good;
And City mapper that never worked (too many trackers ?)
Except the GPS app (maps) has stopped working a few releases ago.
I don't care, I use Comaps which is very good;
And City mapper that never worked (too many trackers ?)
Moté@slamr @johnlogic @itsfoss I think they've been partnering for a long time. You can install /e/os on Fairphone since FP3. I don't see how you can disqualify Fairphone for this, when literraly not other vendor has done this before them 🤔
@petitmote @johnlogic @itsfoss
yeh I've been following the threads and maybe missed something but I thought it was the community that did this port and a bit finicky to get working well...?
@slamr @johnlogic @itsfoss it's not Fairphone themselves, but they're officially supported by /e/os. I don't know to which extent Fairphone helped them. Having the Fairphone OS open source made the work easier, for all I know.
@petitmote @johnlogic @itsfoss
yeh that's exactly my point, it's not exactly a secret the community has been asking for this for years and FP seem to have just ignored it in preference to letting the community do all the heavy lifting
🇪🇺🇩🇪Machina@slamr @petitmote @johnlogic @itsfoss
As far as I know it is sold with /e/OS as an option out of the box, even on the fairphone website.
Flashing manually, if you bought android, is as easy as it gets and for me it has been more stable and performative than android. One of the reasons I switched other than being fed up with google was because the performance wasn't good on stock android and /e/OS basically fixed it for me.
(FP5)