Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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    10 months ago

    I run /e/ OS on my FP4, super easy install. Been loving it.

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      10 months ago

      How do you do if you need for work to use Google products? I would love to use alternative OS, but I cannot because of my job

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        10 months ago

        Google services are not installed by default but you can install the play store and other google apps from the built in app store if you need them. The only thing I am lacking from stock is google pay because I haven’t installed any google services but I’m fine with that trade off.

        The built-in anti tracking and privacy features a very nice

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        10 months ago

        Lineage OS can work with Google services. Probably others too. But beware that unlocking the bootloader to install anything may disable some security

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          10 months ago

          You unlock during the e os install but it makes you relock after. Not aware of any additional security issues using this process

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      10 months ago

      I would love to use /e/ but I couldn’t get it to install. It seemed my phone was the wrong version of the phone it was. Like a revision 1.01 kind of situation. They should also change the project name, it’ll be killing their SEO.

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        10 months ago

        That’s a shame, are you talking about a fair phone? I was not aware there could be versioning issues, I thought the hardware was unchanged per model.