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Android Central: Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OS
www.androidcentral.com/phones/fairphone-gen-6-plus-rocks-murenas-e-os-and-its-making-all-the-right-moves-in-its-august-launchposted in Technology
Android Central: Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OS
www.androidcentral.com/phones/fairphone-gen-6-plus-rocks-murenas-e-os-and-its-making-all-the-right-moves-in-its-august-launchReplying to @murena@lemmy.world
ELI5: Why use /e/OS over Graphene? This isn’t a rhetorical rant; I’m genuinely curious.
Edit: See below. I misphrased this question.
Replying to @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
You don’t own a pixel?
Replying to @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
Sorry, I realize that question could be interpreted in two ways: I meant for Fairphone not to try to get Graphene working on their phone. I know Motorola is trying to do that right now, for example.
Replying to @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
From what I’ve read elsewhere (seen some comments here, don’t remember the exact threads) the Graphene team has a specific hardware requirement that Fairphone doesn’t supply. Would be cool to see both projects working together though
Replying to @Baaron87@lemmy.world
Well in that case, it’s cool to see Fairphone using /e/OS!
Replying to @Baaron87@lemmy.world
That hardware requirement is something they could work on for upcoming phones.
Replying to @woelkchen@lemmy.world
That would be awesome if they do so. I like /e/OS for what it is and does, my FP4 works great after all. That said, having the option for Graphene OS I feel would do nothing but benefit all parties, so hopefully that can be addressed at some point.
Replying to @woelkchen@lemmy.world
Yes, but Fairphone is partnered with Murena (e/os), and there seems to be a beef between them and graphene, so I imagine its out of spite, too.
Replying to @Baaron87@lemmy.world
GrapheneOS is also open source. Fairphone could realistically fork the project without meeting the requirements deemed necessary for the maintenance effort by upstream.
Replying to @NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml
I don’t actually see why they aren’t actually developing this. A lot of the work is done.
Replying to @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
If Motorola does I’ll dump myPixel9 in a heartbeat… Google has too much of a hand in it…
Replying to @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
The team behind GrapheneOS want it to be really secure so they have specific requirements that the phones from Fairphone sadly doesn’t meet.
For a phone to meet all of these requirements AND still being everything that a Fairphone is would make the phone more expensive than the average consumer would be willing to pay. I know several enthusiasts (me included) that would pay for one, but there are simply just to few of us.
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