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 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.