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Samtime tries out a Fairphone 4 running Ubuntu Touch and it seemed pretty fine. Noted issues were the second camera not working, GPS/Map app being a bit weird, and imo, the screen showing all the apps you have open is terrible. But with the reg app store and waydroid, I think it could be almost managable to use.

My mom is a battery life fiend though, so that part she won't let go of. What's your thoughts?

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[โ€“] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just watched this a little while ago and was pretty impressed overall.

I agree the "all open apps" view is awful. The Vista callout made me laugh out loud.

With this and Motorola working with Graphene, we seem to be moving steadily towards some decent options for phones that aren't Google or Apple

[โ€“] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Graphene still requires Android though.

The existence of Graphene obviously tells me that Android is a honeypot, otherwise a trillion dollar company like Google would also harden allocation and memory safety in Android.