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The Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modern (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

Dammit, what's it gonna take for the Fairphone to be brought to the US? The only options are buying it from the Murena shop with their /e/ OS installed or to get the European model from somewhere like eBay or Newegg.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

What's the downside of the Murena route? I'd probably install /e/OS anyways.

[-] sab@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

And you can also overwrite it and install stock Fairphone Android, it's pretty easy.

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

No downside really, guess I'm just more curious what the stock OS is like for the Fairphone

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 4 points 10 months ago

The stock OS is pretty comparable to AOSP with the Google bits installed, a custom camera app and the Fairphone app (which can be disabled or removed IIRC).

It's very barebones, the opposite of a (cluttered IMO) Samsung touchwiz or similar customised UI

[-] moreArt@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Does the european version work in the US with their slightly different frequencies? Personally, I'm a little leery of the entire Murena thing. I get the privacy angle, but I'm more interested in the hardware.

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

From what I've seen as long as you're not using a CDMA network like Verizon it reasonably works. There might be some minor issues when it comes to network performance on 5G/LTE but lots of folks claim that it's been working just fine for them.