It's FOSSMar 5

A surprise collab just happened. 

https://itsfoss.com/news/motorola-grapheneos-team-up/

#privacy #opensource #grapheneos

Tired of Google's Tracking? Motorola's GrapheneOS-Powered Phones Are Coming

You won't need to pay Google for using GrapheneOS soon.

It's FOSS
Show threadslamrMar 5

@itsfoss

I 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

#fairphone #privacy

Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Mar 5

@slamr @itsfoss

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

The Fairphone (Gen. 6) now with privacy-first /e/OS

Stay in control of your data with /e/OS, a deGoogled Fairphone experience with all the functionality of Android, and none of the privacy concerns.

Fairphone
Show threadslamrMar 5

@johnlogic @itsfoss

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

Show threadMotéMar 5
@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 🤔
Show threadslamr

@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...?

Mar 5 at 7:05amWeb
Show threadMotéMar 5
@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.
Show threadslamrMar 5

@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

Show thread🇪🇺🇩🇪MachinaMar 5

@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)