That's awesome to hear about your Fairphone 4! It sounds like a great upgrade from the Pixel 6a. The solid feel and impressive battery life are definitely big pluses. Plus, having access to affordable spare parts is a fantastic feature that many phones lack. Enjoy your new phone and all its slope benefits.
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Is it a good daily driver for normies? Can you run banking apps, for example?
If you get it direct from the distributor then it just runs basic Android so there's no reason it shouldn't.
Oh, I thought it was a Linux phone for some reason.
It runs standard android (Fairphone OS), /e/OS with open source implementation of Google services, LineageOS completely without Google products, Linux and probably more.
That's the best part, it can run Linux
It worked. I only use it from time to time. But 90% of the time its online rather than mobile.
I don't want to mess with big $$ on my phone. Seems like a recipe for disaster.
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Seems like a good phone indeed. I would like a tablet from them
Soo jealous! Would love to gett one but I'm not from Europe
I got the us one. But yeah I hear you.
Mint/T-Mobile works well in my area so that's a plus.
Wait there's a fairphone for the US? I'm not from there either, but definetly more accesible than EU lol, I'm gonna check that out
might be a stupid question, but why wouldn't you be able to use it in the US, or any other country?
Different countries have different providers, use different radio frequencies, etc and thus have different hardware and so on. Phones made for a particular market might not function well (or at all) in another market. This has historically been a barrier to cross-border adoption, though it has gotten a bit better in recent years.
Different radio channels are often used in different regions to get the bits from phone to tower and back. Software-defined radio only goes so far, at some point the hardware RF filters and the like have to be compatible.
Sorry, not sure what you're trying to say. I tried saying "a fairphone from the US would be more accessible than from EU because of shipping. I live closer to the US".
we use different frequency ranges for our cellular networks than most regions
they're sold by morena
+1
https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/
In the US they offer phones that you can get with mobile service piggybacked on T-Mobileβs network. Prices seem fair if not pretty decent for even their unlimited data plan.
Any idea if its good on google fi?
Did you really get a FP4 or did you mean 6?
Its much cheaper and parts are easier to find so appealed to me.
Does it run e/os/?
Murena sells a version with it pre-installed.
Nice!
Yeah. Personally its OK. Does its job.
How is the situation with the boot loader? And when will it be real Linux compatible?
If answers are βcan be unlockedβ and βSoonβ’οΈβ, I gotta get one
Uh.. yeah, kinda the point.
Bootloader is easily unlocked, and it runs ubuntu touch at least... Although I run with /e/os for practical reasons.
No idea. Although I would probably just get a USB mobile connection with a pi or something if I wanted gnu/Linux running. Just my opinion.
Postmarket is available for the FP4 but seems to be not really usable judging from the table:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
I'm running Calyx (π) on the FP5 atm, unlocking the bootloader seems to work for FP4 - 6:
https://www.fairphone.com/en/bootloader-unlocking-code-for-fairphone
How does the camera compare to other phones with good cameras?
Edit: I just read that OP is talking about FP4 not 6, which was released 4 years ago and had considerably worse camera performance compared to the new one. Also support for it will end next year.
~~There are reviews online about it that are better prepared than someone's anecdote. Looks like it is about the same as many other midrange phones. Most probably not as good as a 6a, but the difference is not as big as in the past and they both lack telephoto lens. ~~
Looks the same as the 6a. I can't tell the difference.
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