This is nice - I’ve been using Fairphones for a while: I started with a Fairphone 2 and used it for 7 years until the OS end-of-life, and now I’m on the Fairphone 5. Maybe with things being more open it can keep going for longer this time
You’re an inspiration for environmentalists!
That’s awesome. Does that also mean projects like UBPorts will have an easier time porting Ubuntu touch to the fp6?
Yes because more eyes can view the code.
Sell in Canada please.
Yes please, I’m begging
From what we have seen, there are not a lot of brands currently who offer the necessary resources for smartphone users to develop and run their own custom Android builds on their devices. One is Sony, who lets you play with their Xperia devices. Another one, we are happy to report, is Fairphone.
Tell me about its 3.5mm jack. From this canary I learn what’s truly important to a company, customers or profits.
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Good maybe someone can now fix the half broken mess that is the Fairphone 5. After two Fairphones with buggy software, I am so done with them.
What’s the problem with it? I’m using the FP5 with Calyx custom ROM (yes, I know …) and I’m super happy with it.
Phone calls are broken on both the Fairphone 4 and 5. The Fairphone 4 has some issue where the microphone has really low gain so I had to almost scream and after the last update in April I just couldn’t make or receive calls any longer. It worked once I rebooted but after a few hours it stopped again. The Fairphone 5 developed a similar issue after the upgrade to Android 15, phone calls just stop working after a while.
Another ridiculous issue is that the background image of the Fairphone 5 keeps resetting to the default blue image.
I switched to a Pixel with GrapheneOS instead. This has its own little issues but at least phone calls work reliably on my phone.
Wow, that sounds awful, yeah, I can totally understand that you looked for something else.
The background issue is annoying, but there’s a workaround. You need to set the image as wallpaper and lock screen separately
I have a FP3 and ditched most of the standard apps for anything else from fdroid… that helped me.
Or was it the firmware you’re referring to?
maybe iodéOS can now implement the moment switch as well :)
Still waiting on a secure device from them that actually receives security updates.
Also nice company yeeting the headphone jack to sell their shitty TWS earbuds. Such environmentalism, much wow…
