I used CalyxOS on Fairphone (still waiting for the new one) and that was a good experience. I had completely degoogled main profile and then work profile with microG for things that doesn't really work without google services or for apps that I simply needed but didn't want running all the time. And the work profile was off most of the time. It was a good balance for me. Now I am waiting and using LineageOS, but will jump on the CalyxOS bandwagon once they are back. Also prior to CalyxOS I waited for any ROM, I had just pure FairphoneOS (just an android) and honestly, Fairphone should do something about their software because there were a lots of bugs, some were not solved for a long time and when custom ROMs became available, they were better tuned than the FairphoneOS. I mean seriously, good hardware bad software...
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Any idea how hood the cameras are on these? I specifically got myself a (used) xiaomi 13t for the Leica optics, and will probably not change before it dies (because of money) except if I can sell it and switch ofc.
Fairphone camera is usually very good with enough light. Only issue is low light.
Writing this on the Volla Quintus. It's a nice phone. Best features are the springboard and the boot manager.
do you use any banking apps? if yes, are there any difficulties?
I use two banking apps and an NFC payment app and all of them work without any problems. You just enable micro g and when you're done, you disable it again.
responding on a pixel 3a running android 15 via lineageos
Uhm your phone is EOL since a very long time. I hope you never turn off airplane mode
You can throw Punkt out of a window.
Thanks for this! I won't change my Phone (Samsung S21 FE) for as long as it's working but was looking at Fairphone and Volla/Jolla as Candidates. Good to have a comparsion.
I get it it's hard to make a good product and sell it cheaply, but at these price points, with the hardware there are providing, installing a custom ROM is the cheapest and arguably the best way to de-google.
Some of these are selling you the 5 years old hardware with today's flagship killer phone prices. Unless there is a big change in the Android phone market, these prices for these devices will never be justified in my eyes. Not even for the native Linux experience.
In the case of Fairphone you support the further development of /e/OS also financially. Otherwise the alternative Operating Systems will never be able to fully mature.That alone can justify the purchase of a phone in my eyes (if you've got the money to spare).
That is a vast oversimplifications. Custom Android builds either rely on reverse engineered drivers, or vendor kernels, or mostly undocumented drivers and custom kernel patches.
Custom "ROMs" are often very insecure, as they use the outdated stock vendor kernel of the original OS, as it is so customized. Not always, but often.
Then you have firmware, which is responsible for a ton of tasks on Android phones, way more importantly than on a PC. There is an entire separate, proprietary chip in there, connecting to sensible and insecure networks like 2G and 3G (the modem/baseband).
We don't have to Seattle for just one option. There will always be status-people who buy a brand-new Tesla for 50.000€ because they can afford it. And there are the second hand EV-people, who pay like 10.000€ and still make a difference. Same with de-googled smartphone. Let them buy expensive if they can. I love my de-googled Pixel 4a I bought for like 75€ years ago. Both types are part of the solution.
To be fair buying a /e/OS fairphone also directly helps the development of these alternative systems. Therefore I think its justified to pay a bit more if you've got the money to spare.
I agree.～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
I've had my hands on Fairphones and SHIFT phones. Build quality seems similar.
I'd still get a Fairphone, as they put a lot of effort into open source and being part of the community. They also seem to make slightly more robust devices.
No idea for how long Shift guarantee updates, but Fairphone guarantees updates for many years. Last I checked it was eight years.
BTW, I recently got myself a USB-C charger from Fairphone and the build quality is really good. No doubt it will still work in two years and longer. The price is also decent.
Fairphone absolutely is important and may have driven the long update span of phones. But note that because they were the first, they didnt use a secure smartphone SOC in their phone but an IOT one, lacking any secure element for example. Cracking that phone is not hard for people with the knowledge.
Also their firmware and software updates are often far behind upstream, which has obvious security implications.
Citation needed.
I use /e/OS on my Fairphone 3+ since more than 3 years and can only recommend it!
Can you install apps from the Google store? Are there apps that refuse to work on it?
Of all of those, Punkt is the only one with a headphone jack.
I wish one of them would be supported by grapheneos. Imo the best privacy os but only available on pixel devices