Im considering buying a new phone and i don’t really consider a Pixel. I really like Fairphones approach, with the self repairable stuff. Even though they don‘t have a headphone jack. But well… I can’t change it. I’ll definitely go with the adapter over wireless headphones.

But to my question: What private OSes are there? Fairphone sells FP4s with eOS, how is that? And does it work on the FP5? GrapheneOS only works on Google Pixels right?

    • sweetpotato
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      They are expensive and I don’t want to give money to Google

      • @FutileRecipe
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        They are expensive

        Sometimes you get what you pay for, and…

        I don’t want to give money to Google

        I get that, but your purchase (the entire Pixel department, to be honest) is a drop in the ocean to their profits. They won’t notice you not buying one at all. You’re handicapping yourself in the mobile security arena (not being able to install GrapheneOS) to take the high ground and not effect a tech giant.

        That aside, if you really don’t want to give Google, buy one from a reseller and not from the Google Store.

      • Vik
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        34 months ago

        they sometimes retail at a loss around the holiday season.

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          Sorry I wasn’t comparing to fairphones. I was comparing the minimum you’d have to pay for a phone that has everything you could possibly need with the only difference being a not-that-great camera. So like a budget Xiaomi phone that I use.

      • HEXN3T
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        14 months ago

        If you don’t want to give money to Google, why not take money from Google?

        https://adnauseam.io/

        Then, once you’ve offset enough money, then you can buy a Pixel at an overall loss on Google’s side.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      14 months ago

      I dont know. Its not that I dislike pixels, I just liked the concept of Fairphones. And I just never thought about google phones because I thought google and privacy don’t match, even if I have a different OS installed.