I have had a Fairphine 6 running e/os for several months now, and I could not be happier.
Fully de googled, but all apps I’ve needed run perfectly fine. Also I get around 40 hours of battery, so I charge the phone only every other day for about an hour.
It’s not quite degoogled. MicroG makes calls home to Google. Deactivate device registration and Cloud notifications in Micro G settings if you want to stop calls home but keep Google apps. Otherwise mtalk.google.com is making queries.
I basically just used Shizuku and Canta to remove the MicroG settings. I’ll just bank on a different machine that sits at my house constantly. F google.
Also, the article leaves out that the phone has a kill switch that defaults to kill microphone and camera. I think it is configurable but I have not tried since I like the default.
I can confirm this. I have gone longer than that I think. I noticed my battery still at 97% when I plugged to charger before bed recently. It’s amazing.
I’ve been using a Shiftphone 8 (after upgrading from a Shiftmq 6) with the degoogled ShiftOS-L. It does the job. The removable battery is really nice since I can carry around a spare battery and quickly swap if needed. However, it is made by a small company, so updates are quite sparse. I’d like to switch to iodéOS once it gets out of beta.
Own FP5 with CalyxOS installed. I like this setup, only battery life is not very good (not sure how it goes on official Android). BatteryGuru sais 10%/h with screen active and around 1,2 %/h idling
I recently bought the FP6 with android preinstalled and installed /e/os myself because it was cheaper that way. Installing the is is not difficult at all and there is a detailed guide availabe.
I’m pretty satisfied so far. I’m not missing any functionality except for the headphone jack, but I was willing to compromise on that. Sadly it’s almost impossible to get a phone with headphone jack nowadays anyway.
I generally look for smaller phones with long battery life, and value durability and longevity over cutting edge features. In that regard, the phone is very good in my opinion. It’s smaller that current flagship phones and over the holidays I even went a week without charging it, on day-to-day use I’m currently charging it every 2 to 3 days.
I can’t speak about how repairable it is yet myself, but according to FP and ifixit repairs should be very easy for things like changing the battery and doable with some steady hands for more complex repairs. There are no glued down parts, everything is screwed down or clipped in and you can buy spare parts straight from the manufacturer.
If you have one of these phones be great to hear some personal experiences.
I have had a Fairphine 6 running e/os for several months now, and I could not be happier. Fully de googled, but all apps I’ve needed run perfectly fine. Also I get around 40 hours of battery, so I charge the phone only every other day for about an hour.
It’s not quite degoogled. MicroG makes calls home to Google. Deactivate device registration and Cloud notifications in Micro G settings if you want to stop calls home but keep Google apps. Otherwise mtalk.google.com is making queries.
I basically just used Shizuku and Canta to remove the MicroG settings. I’ll just bank on a different machine that sits at my house constantly. F google.
Also, the article leaves out that the phone has a kill switch that defaults to kill microphone and camera. I think it is configurable but I have not tried since I like the default.
40 hours of battery?
You mean on standby?
No I mean with day to day use, watching videos, listening to podcasts, scrolling through Lemmy, messaging, etc…
I rarely call though.
I can confirm this. I have gone longer than that I think. I noticed my battery still at 97% when I plugged to charger before bed recently. It’s amazing.
I’ve been using a Shiftphone 8 (after upgrading from a Shiftmq 6) with the degoogled ShiftOS-L. It does the job. The removable battery is really nice since I can carry around a spare battery and quickly swap if needed. However, it is made by a small company, so updates are quite sparse. I’d like to switch to iodéOS once it gets out of beta.
Own FP5 with CalyxOS installed. I like this setup, only battery life is not very good (not sure how it goes on official Android). BatteryGuru sais 10%/h with screen active and around 1,2 %/h idling
I recently bought the FP6 with android preinstalled and installed /e/os myself because it was cheaper that way. Installing the is is not difficult at all and there is a detailed guide availabe.
I’m pretty satisfied so far. I’m not missing any functionality except for the headphone jack, but I was willing to compromise on that. Sadly it’s almost impossible to get a phone with headphone jack nowadays anyway.
I generally look for smaller phones with long battery life, and value durability and longevity over cutting edge features. In that regard, the phone is very good in my opinion. It’s smaller that current flagship phones and over the holidays I even went a week without charging it, on day-to-day use I’m currently charging it every 2 to 3 days.
I can’t speak about how repairable it is yet myself, but according to FP and ifixit repairs should be very easy for things like changing the battery and doable with some steady hands for more complex repairs. There are no glued down parts, everything is screwed down or clipped in and you can buy spare parts straight from the manufacturer.
Got Fairphone 5 with eos, pretty happy with it.
Been using a Fairphone 6with e/OS since basically it was launched and couldn’t be happier! All my banking apps work.