de-Googled Fairphone 4 coming to US is rare good tech news for the privacy conscious.
de-Googled Fairphone 4 coming to US is rare good tech news for the privacy conscious.
The Fairphone 4 has made its debut in the US, with prices starting at $630. The smartphone retains the exceptional repairability and sustainability as its European counterpart,...
Nice to see a mainstream option de-Googled in the US.
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As I liked the "fair" part of Fairphone I gave them a shot and bought the FP4. I cannot recommend them.
The camera app sucks, but by grabbing a GCAM APK from xda-developers and using that instead you can get acceptable photo quality.
Since Android 12 FP4 has a screen brightness bug that makes the phone rather unusable outside on a sunny day. This is the deal breaker as the problem hasn't been solved yet.
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/random-screen-dimming-while-brightness-slider-stays-at-100-after-a12-update/93195The camera app sucks, but by grabbing a GCAM APK from xda-developers and using that instead you can get acceptable photo quality
I don't think any FP user uses the stock camera app 😅 personally I use both Opencamera and Nikita Gcam. Gcam's night vision is crazy!
you underestimate normies sticking to defaults
I don't think a normie is buying this phone
Personally I'm not a big picture-taker, so it doesnt bother me one bit. For me though the main draw of the FP was the repairability