I’m thinking of getting a fairphone in the future. I like that they are modular and last a while. Are they easily customizable to where I can flash a different ROM? Is the default configuration private?

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Green washed. If they cared about sustainability they wouldn’t have removed the headphone jack for longer-lived headphones—and instead started selling their own branded Bluetooth earbuds like the rest of the manufacturers.

  • Matombo@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    fairphone offically supports /e/OS as a private option

    also unlockable bootloader if you want to run linage for example

  • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 days ago

    As others said, it’s pretty stock android so… Bad. But you can buy it from Murena pre-flashed with e/os and then have a stock phone with a locked bootloader running a decently private OS. The bootloader is unlockable if you so wish.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    The stock Fairphone runs the stock full-blown Google spyware stack. Privacy isn’t Fairphone’s selling point: it’s repairability.

    You can install CalyxOS very easily on it however. That’s what I’m rocking on my Fairphone 4, and it’s great. I have no issues with it.

  • dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    I’m curious, what’s your use case that you need that kind of a phone? just visited their site, says $550 for a somewhat mediocre phone. it’s repairable, but with expensive, fairphone-only sold parts. the OS on it needs removing, as stated multiple times ITT.

    a 5 year old phone has comparable tech specs, costs like a 10th of that, you can open it and replace battery and parts. you also need to flash an alternative OS, so what justifies a 10-fold price hike?

    edit:

    • Kajika@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      it used to be cheaper, and with an audio jack. Add some environment and social consideration and I see many reasons to buy it.

      Or you can buy a Google phone from Amazon and text about privacy or freeing Palestine while sipping your Starbucks coffee in your Tesla car.

      Not everything has to be about how much do you personally get for the money you give.

      I am so glad I could get the Faiphone 3 while it still had an audio jack. At that time the hardware was not too far behind, still too much for my use which is mainly scrolling through obscure left-ish forums and YouTube channels (thanks newpipe) and startups late-stage capitalist hacker news (I don’t know any better about tech).

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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      6 days ago

      what’s your use case that you need that kind of a phone?

      I repair my phones when they break and the easy repair of a Fairphone is in no way comparable to the absolute pain it is to remove the display on a phone released in the last 5 years.

      Especially considering they provide a 5 year warranty, source fair materials, 8 years of security updates and many more years to come with full access to replacement parts.

    • jan75@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      Fairphone also at least tries to create / source their phones fairly. Not important in terms of privacy, but somewhat explains the higher price tag.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    The default Android on them is pretty standard including Google Play services, so it is not great in regards to privacy (but could be worse, like an Apple device or so).

    But for most of their models you can find good alternative Android roms or even mobile Linux distributions like PostmarketOS.