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Fairphone drawbacks? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by fluorine@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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There’s been a lot of buzz here about the Fairphone here lately, especially with it coming to the US.

On paper, it seems rather nice. Ethically sourced, privacy friendly stock ROM.

But the skeptic in me does say, “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.”

What are the drawbacks of Fairphone that seem to be shunned away, or less discussed both by the company and community at large? Why shouldn’t I just buy a Pixel 7a and put GrapheneOS on it instead?

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is this really true? At least my Fairphone 3 came with stock Android and I had to reflash it to get /e/OS.

I think that they do have a partnership with Murena where they sell /e/OS pre-installed, but outside of that they should come with Android + Google Play Services.

[–] glitched_lesbian@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

yh, my fp4 came with stock android+google