Interesting article from a generalist magazine. According to it:
- Best Preinstalled Phone: Fairphone 6 With /e/OS
- Best for Pixel Phones: GrapheneOS
- Best for Non-Pixel Phones: /e/OS
- For the DIY Tinkerer: LineageOS
I am extremely happy with my Fairphone 6 with e/os!
I installed myself with the web installer, and it was super easy.
that stupid phone is for oafs. you got utterly scammed
I know, but I chose to support a local business and bought it in a shop in person and they only had the stock one.
But I do donate to Murena every month to support their development.
I have a Fairphone 6 with /e/os and it was great until I found out it has no RCS support, and every time someone with real Android or iOS sends a group text you get nothing and they don’t know you didn’t get it. For it to be workable you have to go around begging your friend to turn off RCS on their end and good luck with that.
If you turn off RCS a day or two before switching and ensure you message these groups after this is typically negated (at least in my experience) GrapheneOS just put out a way to use RCS on its OS this month which is really nice, I have it on its own profile for RCS and use open bubbles for iMessage/FaceTime and I’m astounded how well it works tbh. But the goal is to slowly harass enough of my frequent contacts to get on signal, so far I’m doing great, my largest hold out being my wife lol
This post’s headline (not Wired’s) is a tad misleading. Even the Android without Google Services still comes from Google originally.
Buy it used. The hardware doesn’t call back home.
You haven’t yet heard of the baseband modem thing? There is some debate about whether the baseband hardware has phone-home functionality on most major brands.
I thought the debate is about the baseband software having ancient unfixed vulnerabilities that can give wide access to the phone for network operator systems
All of them unfortunately based on and rely upon Android.
But the problem is not Android itself. It’s that google has populated it with tracking, profiling and in general anti-privacy software… Remove that, and you have a decent OS…
As long as Google allows that to happen, which is the problem.
Don’t disagree in that point. The problem is, that phone companies don’t want to support anything really… so until an open source project in that regard, is accepted by the major phone companies, we would have a hard time switching… And since they are paid and bribed by the ones in majority, like Google and Apple, that won’t likely happen, unless there’s some good politicians doing their gd dmn job…
Reading the problems here with the pure Linux platforms, why is there no initiative to get Linux mobile up to speed? The EU at least is looking for tech independence, funding should be possible.
Honestly Graphene is the only one that I’d trust unless you’re not going to add any Google play services at all with Lineage, and I’m including micro G on that too.
Sailfish OS is beautiful and really nice, decent app support, but kind of a pain in the USA, postmarketos shows strong promise, but doesn’t have VOLTE support yet which makes it a dealbreaker for me personally. I know a lot of folks love UBports, it never really was something I enjoyed. I’m really hoping to use Sailfish in the USA someday
Sailfish OS is beautiful and really nice, decent app support
Have you actually used sailfishos? It isn’t much better than using an Ubuntu touch device:
- app support is still pretty weak
- no volte
- big, big problems still with using MMS
- SMS problems (still) while data is on
- networking stack is very buggy for android apps (WhatsApp calls are unusable)
- no 5g
- no nfc
If you had a different experience, I’d love to know how you achieved it.
I’ve had my fairphone for a couple of weeks now and am loving it!
Thinking of getting a fairphone 3/4. Currently use a dumb phone and a fire tablet I got second hand very cheap.
I have the 6, and it’s well worth it, I’d assume the 3 or 4 will be quite the upgrade from a dumb phone
