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Fairphone 6 Plus review: an eco-friendly phone that's finally available in the US
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Hope this trend continues. My Pixel has a solid 5 years left easily but after that this’d be great. Looking at Framework laptops as well.
Cool computers, but Framework supports fascists
Wow a group funded by Linus Tech Tips turns out to be full of chuds, color me surprised
Looks like a relatively closed issue https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/10/14/framework-flame-war-erupts-over-linux-controversy/1466815
I’m in the US and bought one. Put LineageOS on it, and I’m really enjoying it. It has like double the battery life of my old phone, and I don’t know if that’s because of the phone or because none of my apps are constantly uploading my personal data.
CalyxOS
Relocked bootloader for security, banking apps in seperate user profits, built-in work profiles for the more needed but shit apps.
I am loving it on my fairphone 6 so far, and the flasher tool was very easy and it automatically triggers the locking steps so you can’t mess it up.
My Sony’s battery lasts a week in sparse use with /e/OS. It was the surveillance wasting energy.
Which sony runs e/os? I like their phones, had no idea they were compatible with e/os
Several are able to run Lineage (I believe a lot of the 1 series as well as a couple of the 5 and 10 series too), and since e/OS is based on Lineage, they can more easily support it. Check the link the other person commented!
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/?q=sony
I bought two a few weeks ago. One my wife and I, each. We both love it so far. Also because we just barely missed the promo for free fairbuds, they supplied us with two gift cards for equivalent deal.
Fantastic customer service.
The only thing it’s missing is graphene OS support :(
May i interest you in Linux support instead?
I would’ve gotten this if I could (not available in India). And just to let you know, you’re the only reason I want this device.
Does Linux actually work on the 6+? I haven’t been able to find any info on compatibility other than it supposedly existing.
https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen.6)(fairphone-fp6)
If someone is not familiar with Nura, it was previously known as the PostmarketOS but changed the name last week.
I should add that Jolla is a Finnish, Linux-first phone. Runs Sailfish.
In an old secondary phone for testing sure! Not confident enough to have this on my main phone
CalyxOS works on it too reportedly.
Really really enjoying calyx on my fairphone 6 (non plus).
Also iodéOS, IIRC
PTSD triggered xd
I have one too, really like it. Performamce is pretty much on par with my previous phone, Pixel 7, though battery is much better. The slow USB-c port sucks, but fortunately I can use an SD card for large file transfers. I just had to get a case because the body is a bit too slippery for me.
If it’s just for file transfers, have you tried local send? That’s only limited by your local connection speed to your own network. Any 2 devices on the same network can transfer arbitrarily many/large files back and forth
Yea i’ve used copyparty a few times, it does work reliably and fast
I’ve tried to finding if they’d work in Australia so i can import one. Our telcos are super restrictive about phones becase we shut 3G and coaling our emergency number is fraught with issues on many phones
Worryingly Murena (main /e/OS developer) is not selling it there:
https://murena.com/products/smartphones/?wcpbc-manual-country=AU
Fuck our politicians for this. Yet another let industry decide legislation bullshit decision.
I quite fancy a FP6 / FP6+, but unfortunately my FP3+ is still going strong with it’s 2nd battery and 2nd USB port (due to cheap cables wearing it out), so I’ll probably have to keep using it for another few years… 😉
I own the FP6 and my mother owns the FP6+. We’re both happy with it.
Canadian checking in: I can haz?
Not from Murena (main /e/OS developer):
https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/?wcpbc-manual-country=CA
Oh, so does this mean it’s popular enough for a bunch of people to buy as much of them as possible and sell them in the US at %500 percent of what they’re worth?
Because that’s what will happen.
A thousand dollars?!?! Sorry, I ain’t no thousandaire.
Dollaridoos?
Dang, I was looking to get a new phone for myself, but that price is just too much for me. Looks like I’ll just buy a used pixel 8
Regional restricted phone. Can’t even deliver through forwarding company because store does not accept payment method with billing address from my country.
European companies struggle with scale. Canada is neglected by Fairphone.
It would be completely fine for me if this company could not deliver the phone to my country. Logistics is difficult and expensive. If i wanted to get one anyway, i could just deliver it through forwading company from my country, for an additional delivery fee. The main problem however, which i am the most outraged about, is that they intentionally restrict payment from countries where they will not deliver, even though i have money and can deliver through third party delivery service.
This is simply due to a strict compliance process which is a good thing
In what way forcing a regional restriction a good thing? All banks in my country support international payment methods like master card and visa, while most banks also provide and option to register an euro card. How does intentionally not accepting international payment even in euro just because the card is registered in other country, a good thing and counts as a strict complience?
This is because you have a limited understanding of what their compliance process entails. I don’t think they are intentionally refusing to accept payment from a list of countries but rather they have not completed the due diligence or fulfilled these compliance requirements yet. They are a relatively small company still.
Fairphone might just lack certification from Industry Canada, limiting direct sales to Canada.
Regardless whether that’s the case or not, Canada and the EU should make sure CE declaration and IC certification get mutually recognised.
Reduce trade barriers, fight authoritarianism through cooperation.
Take this with a grain of salt as i am not an expert but when i looked into it if you sell knowing it will go to a forwarding service to a specific country legally it then counts as selling to that country and the seller is on the hook for all the regulations so they have to block it.
If you order from another place you’d be importing.
If, for example, you order something from China to somewhere in the European customs union, directly from China and not a European company, you’d be the importer and as such are responsible for following your country’s regulations.
Imagine being a seller and someone from another country, perhaps one you don’t know much about and one that is not in a customs union with the country you are in, orders something from you. There’s no reason you would have to comply with regulations of that country.
I’ll happily accept if im wrong as i am not a lawyer and certainly not a Canadian one, ive tried to find enforcement based on it but i can’t find clear cases on it, this is the legislation:
The question becomes does “offer for sale or sell any radio apparatus” also apply to companies outside Canada?
Still, i can imagine a company is not keen on selling products they know are illegal in the destination country, but the seller (outside canada) being liable for the radio act is maybe wrong then.
On the consumer protection part it does seem correct that the foreign seller is on the hook, atleast for provincial law.
Again assuming “all” then includes foreign transactions.
Look at the first part of the sentence:
import is right there, you are apparently not allowed to import it under Canadian law.
Canadian law can, of course, not stop a company in another country from following different laws.
Then it is a regional restriction. Its one thing when company does not bother selling it in other country, and a completely different thing when it is intentionally restricting product sales in those countries. And unlike software, physical products cannot be just pirated, while smuggling is significantly risker.
Again i don’t know for sure but from my understanding to answer this question and the one you asked ironblossom.
If a company accepts payment and ships to a fowarding service knowing it is going to a certain country then that is legally the same as if they shipped it themselves.
If their product is not certified to be sold in that country the seller now can face heavy fines.
If their product is defective and causes damage and they don’t have insurance for that country then the seller can be on the hook for heavy payouts.
To prevent this the seller must block the sale.
if it becomes a successful brand it will get BANNED
Maybe so, but the US is just a side quest for them anyway. It certainly won’t be banned in the EU.
That one is well supported by /e/OS.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-Murenas-custom-e-OS-compare-to-Googles-Android/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
Why are you using Quora?
When you can use this instead:
https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
There’s 400 million monthly active users on Quora (of which tens of percent are bots).
That link is in my answer.
I really want this, but my threshold for acceptable compromise is -5% of the performance of the snapdragon 8E G6 extreme (flagship)/A20.