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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dammit, what's it gonna take for the Fairphone to be brought to the US? The only options are buying it from the Murena shop with their /e/ OS installed or to get the European model from somewhere like eBay or Newegg.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the downside of the Murena route? I'd probably install /e/OS anyways.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

And you can also overwrite it and install stock Fairphone Android, it's pretty easy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No downside really, guess I'm just more curious what the stock OS is like for the Fairphone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The stock OS is pretty comparable to AOSP with the Google bits installed, a custom camera app and the Fairphone app (which can be disabled or removed IIRC).

It's very barebones, the opposite of a (cluttered IMO) Samsung touchwiz or similar customised UI

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the european version work in the US with their slightly different frequencies? Personally, I'm a little leery of the entire Murena thing. I get the privacy angle, but I'm more interested in the hardware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

From what I've seen as long as you're not using a CDMA network like Verizon it reasonably works. There might be some minor issues when it comes to network performance on 5G/LTE but lots of folks claim that it's been working just fine for them.