Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10? | iFixit News
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Is the Fairphone 5 just a repeat of a proven formula or a real improvement compared to its predecessors?

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys’ opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

  • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    You can technically. But you might not get service in certain areas because it doesn’t have support for all of the US bands.

    I came really close to importing one until I found I couldn’t use 5g, and there’d be very little LTE support for T-Mobile.

    Ended up getting a Pixel 8, hopefully they can get it to the US sooner than they did the FP4.

    Ive been considering GrapheneOS. I only really use Banking, Android Auto and occasionally Maps from the play store (although I LOVE Organic Maps).

    • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      I’ve had a fine time with GOS so far. If you just want to lessen Googles grip on you instead of going balls deep on security/privacy, it’s been just as fine as a stock rom. You can install play services as a normal ass app sandboxed and control it’s perms to get your push notifications and if an app doesn’t work out the box there’s a compatibility mode that lessens the GOS behind the scenes workings so it’ll run.

      I don’t have any map app yet, but all my banking apps work (one with compatibility mode) and haven’t had any issues with anything so far.

    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Graphene doesn’t and won’t ever support android auto, sadly, it’s the only thing I miss

      Edit: well, that’s what they said, but now it’s optionally available!