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[โ€“] 14 points 10 months ago (10 children)

If you have one of these phones be great to hear some personal experiences.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I have had a Fairphine 6 running e/os for several months now, and I could not be happier. Fully de googled, but all apps I've needed run perfectly fine. Also I get around 40 hours of battery, so I charge the phone only every other day for about an hour.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    It's not quite degoogled. MicroG makes calls home to Google. Deactivate device registration and Cloud notifications in Micro G settings if you want to stop calls home but keep Google apps. Otherwise mtalk.google.com is making queries.

    I basically just used Shizuku and Canta to remove the MicroG settings. I'll just bank on a different machine that sits at my house constantly. F google.

    Also, the article leaves out that the phone has a kill switch that defaults to kill microphone and camera. I think it is configurable but I have not tried since I like the default.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    40 hours of battery?

    You mean on standby?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No I mean with day to day use, watching videos, listening to podcasts, scrolling through Lemmy, messaging, etc...

    I rarely call though.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago

    I've been using a Shiftphone 8 (after upgrading from a Shiftmq 6) with the degoogled ShiftOS-L. It does the job. The removable battery is really nice since I can carry around a spare battery and quickly swap if needed. However, it is made by a small company, so updates are quite sparse. I'd like to switch to iodรฉOS once it gets out of beta.

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