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Having the entire production line in Europe sounds almost too good to be true, but then again other comments point to HMD.

Personally I think Fairphone is about as good as it gets, due to the commitment to conflict-free minerals and all that. I've been super happy with Fairphone for more than half a decade now. :)

You can also buy them new with /e/OS, which is a de-Googled Android developed open source by a French company called Murena.

Fairphone is great. I really can recommend it. It is a bit expensive at first and the specs are not something special, but mine seems to be almost indestructible. I dropped it like a 100 times and the screen is still fine. If it ever breaks I can replace it myself cheaply. I think in the long term, this makes it a lot better than many other phones. Also, a lot of the materials were sourced responsibly.

Pre-ordered the Shiftphone 8. While it's promising I am unhappy with their constant delays and communication.

Volla sells rebranded Gigaset with custom operating systems (Ubuntu Touch/VollaOS (degoogled android)). They don't manufacture themselves.

I never heard of them before and just looked around for a bit but I couldn't find any reviews of their current phones so far. If anybody has more information or wants to share personal experiences, I'd be interested.

I've been using my FP4 for over 3 years, and can't really complain too much about it. the battery life started degrading quite significantly for me last year (I use my phone a lot), so I just ordered a new one and replaced it in under a minute.

I only know one person in real life with a fp4 after 2.5 years or so.

She says it absolutely sucks, takes forever to load anything on mobile internet (apparently the antennas are horrible or something), android auto barely works, and she says it will probably end up being her least-long lasting phone because it is just becoming more unusable by the month.

I was ready to buy into a fp5 to replace my sony 5ii (partly because on the MKBHD picture test it scored just under the pixels for me personally and it actually has an SD card slot unlike pixels) until I heard that review. Especially because I use android auto regularly.

Then also on reddit, where people ask about fairphone experiences and it is not just advertisements like on Lemmy, every detailed review says it is software bugs galore and mediocre hardware. Allegedly fair phone developers don't develop on fairphones so bugs are rarely noticed and take extremely long time to fix. Also I hear updates are extremely slow and late.

Again, I haven't used one myself, but when reviews are in one of two categories:

1. extremely vague "great phone no issues"
2. Very detailed review of how buggy and slow to update or fix bugs it it is

I tend to believe the much more detailed review as I got burned on the HMD Nokia 7.1 that was the biggest piece of garbage I have ever used.

My gf has a Fairphone 4 and it's decent. She isn't a power user so it works fine for her though as a techy person I find it kinda slow. Of course there is the 5 now and potentially the 6 later this year which will be faster.

Feels solid in the hand and the cameras are much better than I thought they would be

such a let down they axed off the headphone jack

I know 4 people directly, who use a FP 3 or 4 and they are just fine. Best thing are the long lasting security updates (7+ years) and of course repairability.

Based on the specs, seems it's only assembled in Germany with exception of a few parts like the battery.

It also seems to use standard Android with Google Play though.

If it does, then Fairphone would be a better option, or a phone offering from Murena perhaps too since that comes with /e/os

Another vote here for HMD. I’m a Finn so totally biased but I recommend checking them out.

~~Or !buyfromeu@feddit.org if you want to make sure they adhere to EU laws.~~

Lol, never mind, that's where you posted it in the first place. Nice to see that the community is already gaining traction. :P