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Wow, this is amazing!
Crazy decision. The quality of FP and their customer service are abyssimal. I know because I used all of them from FP1 to FP4. After them just sending brandnew but broken FP5 phones twice to me. Looked into FP user forum. Learned 100+ other users experienced the same issue, yet no reaction from FP. Had to fight hard to get my money back. I am out. Good luck Radboud University, godspeed.
FWIW I haven't had any issues with my FP6, everything works well.
Same here. My battery has never died and I've had it for almost two months.
I got a flagship and regret it. I wanted to degoogle and I couldnt get it to work for me and now I am overgoogled. The battery is shit. As much as I have always detested them, Samsung have a better UI than pixel.
A flagship what? What google issues are you having? I have some tips if Samsung is the problem.
I got a flagship and regreted it too.
Pixe10lpro. Battery sucks. Google issue is that they are everywhere offering additional ai if i accept terms
That one I do not know about. Shizuku and Canta can be used to remove a lot if the bloatware, but can soft brick if you remove play store. For play store just disable with Canta. Why not just put Graphene on there? Is it too new for Graphene support?
I bought it for Graphene, I never wanted google anything much less their phone. But I needed a good camra and I got it for halfprice, figured gOS would be great but NFC payments are only available through google wallet for my bnaks and android auto didnt work.
Did you get the e/ one?
Is it possible to run e.g. GrapheneOS on it? How secure is it?
While the fairphone can't run GrapheneOS, /e/OS is already a massive improvement over the standard Google Android as it removes the different Google viruses and bootkits installed by default. If graphene OS is a requirement for you, I'd suggest waiting until Q4 2026. As then, they have said a new device will support the software.
Wait what? Fairphone will release a ohone supporting GrapheneOS? Pog
And as for the interface.. I know it sounds silly, but does GrapheneOS have a similar interface to e/, or allow you to give it that more of an Apple-ish look?
I never said Fairphone would be it, they have just announced a new partnership with an unnamed OEM that will support GrapheneOS on their devices starting Q4 2026. I wish it were fairphone.
In Android you can make the launcher look whatever you like. You just install the launcher like any other program on the device and then just select the launcher in the settings menu as your default one. You can make it look like whatever you want.
Graphene only supports pixel devices
No unfortunately I'm still on regular Android for now.
GrapheneOS isn't supported either as they only support pixel phones.
I'm not sure I'm qualified to speak to how secure it is, but my impression would be that it is about as secure as any other android phone (other than a pixel running graphene)
They would be supporting them internally anyway, and for only specific apps since it's a phone for employees. I wonder what the change in projected costs like that are.
Interesting. My fp5 is my first fp. I wouldn't say I'm impressed with the hardware across the board, lots of complaints honestly. But the service has been pretty great to me. I had a problem with my fingerprint button and they queued up a replacement phone (ironic? Can't even fix this lol) for me and shipping without me even pushing
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w00t My Alma Mater.
Getting a FairPhone 6 today. Bit anxious about doing the e/os switch without bricking it (literally and figuratively)
Don't be afraid of installing a new operating system on your phone. It used to be a big ordeal, but nowadays there has been so much work done to make it super easy. Just follow the instructions from the website and you'll be golden. Read twice and click once, my personal tip.
It worked just fine :-) shame the web installer isnโt working for FP6 yet. Bit did the command line okay.
I Read the anti brick instructions veeeery carefully.
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