I want to like Fairphone, but it is completely made in China, which is a deal breaker.
Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com
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Re: Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com
#52Is it waterproof? Or being easy to repair means you’ll have to replace pretty much whole phone after being exposed to water?
Splash resistant. Had no problem using it in light rain conditions, probably wouldn't pull it out of my pocket during heavy rain.
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#53"/e/OS by Murena"
Engineer tech founders, open source maintainers: please pass these names by a normal person before you decide on them. No normal person is going to understand that "/e/OS" is supposed to be a Unix file path, nor care. They're going to go "why does it have a '/' around the 'e' ?". If they pop it into their browser search bar, they will get an error, because the browser thinks it's a file path or something. When they go to Google.com and search for it, one of the first things that comes up is "what does e OS mean?" In fact, you can just take "OS" out of the name altogether, because normal people don't know what an Operating System is.
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#54I have been using a Fairphone 4 with /e/OS for awhile now in the US. AMA. The experience has been mostly good, with a few irritating issues. I still consider it good though, because I had a flagship Pixel previously and had my share of irritating issues also. I don't really miss Google at all. * Occasionally the keyboard just disappears. Crashes or something. Killing the AOSP (Android keyboard) service restores it. H…
> Occasionally the keyboard just disappears. Crashes or something. Killing the AOSP (Android keyboard) service restores it. Hopefully this gets fixed.
Are you using the stock keyboard? I allways install Simple Keyboard from F-Droid, Zero problems for years.
Re: Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com
#55I have been using a Fairphone 4 with /e/OS for awhile now in the US. AMA. The experience has been mostly good, with a few irritating issues. I still consider it good though, because I had a flagship Pixel previously and had my share of irritating issues also. I don't really miss Google at all. * Occasionally the keyboard just disappears. Crashes or something. Killing the AOSP (Android keyboard) service restores it. H…
Does the device feel heavy? Looking at the specs it's over 200g - that seems a lot.
Re: Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get “not available in your country.” I’m in USA
You have to go to the regional shop: https://murena.com/america/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena... I'm not in the US, so I assume that's why I get a 404 for the product, but maybe it's just not available.
I'm in the U.S. and it is still a 404
Re: Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com
#57I want to like Fairphone, but it is completely made in China, which is a deal breaker.
Definitely a sticking point for me as well.
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It depends a lot of what you do with your phone tbh, I'm on a pixel 3a and still see no reasons to update, the fairphone 4 is better spec'd than that
I agree with you practically except that the pixel 3a has not been getting security updates for over a year. I wouldn't run it with anything personal on it. - https://endoflife.date/pixel
I use a Pixel 5a with GrapheneOS with full storage encryption and even when it stops getting updates no matter the security situation I don't plan on upgrading at all if ever, I already don't want any banking or authentication to rely on a phone so that's not a big issue. Of course I still have machines at home running Windows XP (updated to 2019 albeit) so do not listen to me on security.
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Geez, what a negative take on a company who do their best to be environment-friendly. I got quite some corrosion on the headphone jack of my Raspberry Pi 2B. Not sure why. But either way, these adapters can be bought anywhere, and they'll work on other devices as well. Like I said, I didn't use mine much. Usually Bluetooth with an adequate profile is good enough. I doubt people hear the difference between Bluetooth a…
It is true though, lest we forget that Samsung managed to make the Galaxy S5 IP67 water resistant... this phone meanwhile is IP57 rated, which is actually even worse. If they tell you "it's harder with the headphone jack" that's not a good enough reason either, just try harder; it's not worth omitting when we know it is possible. Samsung was able to pull this off with the S5 A DECADE AGO: - removable back - removable…
Fairphones are more bulky because they are modular, are easy to open, and don't use glue. If there is space for 3.5mm you might have a point.
I would prefer two USB-C over one USB-C plus one 3.5mm. It would be more useful to a lot of customers.
Re: Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com
#60Fairphone 4 with /e/OS (by Murena) directly from fairphone website is grand, but if you want the new fairphone 5 then go directly to the murena website. https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairpho...
Not available in the US, while the 4 is.