I used to to have the Fairphone 1 working, first in the Optus network and then Vodafone back in 2014. Both working fine with the FP. -- Sven
On 2 Jul 2016, at 11:19 AM, FVZ <jabjabs@fastmail.com.au> wrote:
Fairphone is a work in progress from what I can see. The first revision was mostly focusing on just making a phone that was built from conflicts-free materials, and much easier to self repair. There has been a great deal of moral support from them for free software but it hasn't been a major focus as of yet.
With the Fairphone 2 they are trying to get much more free software friendly but this isn't going much deeper than the current AOSP level, the drivers will still be proprietary simply due to the manufactures not playing nice as usual. It isn't much more free than a phone running Cyanogen.
Now that they have already successful shipped a product and are going into a second round they will start to get more leverage in trying to free up the lower level hardware. They heading in the right direction but this will take time and trying to get stubborn hardware manufacturers to pay attention.
About the only warning I will give about the current phone is 529,38 € before shipping which is approximately $780 AUD, also considering the phone is designed for EU phone standards and I am not sure how compatible that is with our local networks.
Michael Verrenkamp
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1. Fairphone: The smartphone with social values (Ben Finney)
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Howdy all,
Many of our recent meetings have touched on the difficulty of obtaining a handheld computer (a “smartphone”) that works with only free software.
Has anyone looked into the Fairphone <URL:https://www.fairphone.com/>?
There have been some models historically that could be made to work with some degree of free software, but this is one where the designers are proud of how the hardware is in control of the owner who bought it.
They deliver only within Europe for now. Does anyone know someone in the EU (which for now still includes the UK!) who could help some of us by ordering a few Fairphone devices and delivering them to Australia?
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