2w ago

Fairphone 6 gets a 10/10 on repairability

www.theverge.com

BuyFromEU @europe.pub

tfm @europe.pub

2w ago

Fairphone 6 gets a 10/10 on repairability

www.theverge.com /news/698363/fairphone-6-ifixit-teardown-repairability-perfect-score

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BrikoX @lemmy.zip

2w ago

Fairphone 6 gets a 10/10 on repairability

www.theverge.com /news/698363/fairphone-6-ifixit-teardown-repairability-perfect-score

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Now if only they'd support Graphene OS or something like that. Preferably signed, so that banking apps would have a chance of working.
In the long run bonus - Linux support would be nice too.
- Fairphones are pretty well supported with PostmarketOS which is mainline Linux. Audio support being one big feature that is missing on all of them. Luca Weiss from Fairphone is working on mainline Linux patches for these devices. The Fairphone 6 booted with Linux support on the first day it was released (though still missing many drivers)
  https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Fairphone
  I wish Fairphone would hire more People to work on Linux support
  
  Audio seems like kinda important, you know, for a phone...
- @rollerbang @ryanee@anonsys.net CalyxOS/LineageOS/postmarketOS/UBTouch and/or /e/OS would be better for trying to get banking support, they are compatible with plenty more devices including Google Pixel while GrapheneOS is only compatible with Google Pixel
  
  Sure, but I'm trying to see it from a manufacturer's perspective. They've got to put effort in an OS regardless, so maybe it wouldn't be too much extra effort, if any, to have Grapehene supported.
- Is calyxos not good enough for you?
- Indeed.
  This phone is so niche that the only OS that it only makes sense to work in being compatible with GrapheneOS, the crème de la crème of custom OSes.
  I'd just ship from Pixel immediately if Fairphone ups their game to the point GrapheneOS wants to work with them.
  
  I at least hope they would put effort to non Android OS. Why put effort to Android OS if most people would like get rid of USA dependency? I would love them to offer support for SailfishOS, which can still run Android apps in container and most of them work, including a lot of banking apps
- My banking app works great on /e/os.
  
  Mine does not sadly. Locked and all, but still it won‘t do it.
- Isn't e/os build on graphene?
  https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system
  
  e/os, for the fairphone 4 at least, is based on lineageOS.
- the moment this happens I am switching (after my current phone dies that is)

Such a cool phone. We need more like this.
- It's what every phone should have to be like.
- Honestly quite the downgrade in some departments imo. You cant swap the battery without a screwdriver anymore (was great for hiking with a secondary battery) and no USB3 which also means no DP over USBC.
  
  Actually to me that's an improvement as my back plate, and thus my battery, has come loose causing the phone to sometimes turn off when it falls.
  
  cant swap the battery without a screwdriver anymore
  The horror. Imagine using any other phone where you can't take the battery out at all (at least until 2027 when all phones will be forced to have removable batteries).
  I think Fairphone has bigger contentions to deal with than having to use a screwdriver.
  
  I lost a motorola battery off a cliff I wasn't even standing particularly near once while attempting a battery swap... I suppose I succeeded at swapping the battery at least.
- ... With a 3.5mm audio jack.
- Old phones were like this! It was super easy to replace screens, batteries, etc. on smartphones 10 years ago. Then everything became glued, sealed, and enshittified.

And a 2/10 for global availability
- Regulations, my friend. You can't just willy nilly sell it everywhere, at least not officially.
  The workaround is find a mail forwarder or a reseller. Clove Technology ships worldwide (be ware of potential import taxes).