▲ 961 ▼ Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US (www.wired.com) submitted 2 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 228 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TheMightyCat@ani.social 9 points 2 months ago (9 children) Why not posmarketOS? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago (3 children) I love Linux as much as the next guy but I've got PostmarketOS as well as Ubuntu touch running on a Fairphone 4 and the experience is far from polished, postmarket doesn't even do VoLTE. Not saying it sucks - I love it. But it's not for everyone and unlikely to replace android for most use cases at the moment unfortunately. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] TheMightyCat@ani.social 16 points 2 months ago* (2 children) postmarket doesn’t even do VoLTE. Well do i have good news for you! https://ani.social/post/34656971 https://ani.social/post/35759149 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago they got the camera kinda working on the 6+ yesterday too https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera permalink fedilink source parent [–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago Yeah I think it just doesn’t work on the FP4 yet. At least I haven’t managed to get it working. On Ubuntu touch it also took years (although that community is also very… special) permalink fedilink source parent [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago I want postmarket so bad. They did actually get a camera working for fairphone 6+, yesterday, kinda, mostly https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera I need an ok camera, ok video, gps, volte, sms, and ~18 hours of battery life with maybe 6-8 of it active. permalink fedilink source parent [–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago All of the above, preferably permalink fedilink source parent [–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago (2 children) That's definitely possible, although it will take some work, because the processor is different from the Fairphone 6, which is currently running post-market OS already. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheMightyCat@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 child) It won't take any work, Luca has confirmed the image works on both Fairphone 6 and Fairphone 6+ https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6) its on the wiki now too permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago Oh sweet, thanks permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago (3 children) I love Linux as much as the next guy but I've got PostmarketOS as well as Ubuntu touch running on a Fairphone 4 and the experience is far from polished, postmarket doesn't even do VoLTE. Not saying it sucks - I love it. But it's not for everyone and unlikely to replace android for most use cases at the moment unfortunately. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] TheMightyCat@ani.social 16 points 2 months ago* (2 children) postmarket doesn’t even do VoLTE. Well do i have good news for you! https://ani.social/post/34656971 https://ani.social/post/35759149 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago they got the camera kinda working on the 6+ yesterday too https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera permalink fedilink source parent [–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago Yeah I think it just doesn’t work on the FP4 yet. At least I haven’t managed to get it working. On Ubuntu touch it also took years (although that community is also very… special) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheMightyCat@ani.social 16 points 2 months ago* (2 children) postmarket doesn’t even do VoLTE. Well do i have good news for you! https://ani.social/post/34656971 https://ani.social/post/35759149 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago they got the camera kinda working on the 6+ yesterday too https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera permalink fedilink source parent [–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago Yeah I think it just doesn’t work on the FP4 yet. At least I haven’t managed to get it working. On Ubuntu touch it also took years (although that community is also very… special) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago they got the camera kinda working on the 6+ yesterday too https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago Yeah I think it just doesn’t work on the FP4 yet. At least I haven’t managed to get it working. On Ubuntu touch it also took years (although that community is also very… special) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago I want postmarket so bad. They did actually get a camera working for fairphone 6+, yesterday, kinda, mostly https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera I need an ok camera, ok video, gps, volte, sms, and ~18 hours of battery life with maybe 6-8 of it active. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago All of the above, preferably permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago (2 children) That's definitely possible, although it will take some work, because the processor is different from the Fairphone 6, which is currently running post-market OS already. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheMightyCat@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 child) It won't take any work, Luca has confirmed the image works on both Fairphone 6 and Fairphone 6+ https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6) its on the wiki now too permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago Oh sweet, thanks permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheMightyCat@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 child) It won't take any work, Luca has confirmed the image works on both Fairphone 6 and Fairphone 6+ https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6) its on the wiki now too permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago Oh sweet, thanks permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago Oh sweet, thanks permalink fedilink source parent