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
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...?
🇪🇺🇩🇪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)