I recently got an e-mail from Fairphone that they will be ending support for Fairphone 3(+) in a couple of months and I’m thinking about getting a replacement with /e/OS installed on it instead of Android.
All the independent information I can find seems to be from two or three years ago, so I was wondering if anyone with recent experience or knowledge has any thoughts about it?
I’m not interested in recommendations for other operating systems as I’m only considering switching from Android because there is an option for it to come pre-installed on the latest Fairphone with the bootloader locked, which may solve a few headaches. I’d just like to know if /e/OS has any gotchas to be aware of and if Ecorp/Esolutions/Murena are considered to be reputable (i.e. they’re not going to steal my data).
I bought the fp6 with /e/os preloaded. It’s generally fine but there are some annoying issues. The most annoying is the brightness detection I’d awful. It defaults to the lowest setting at pretty much all times and adjusts do much that I gave up and turned it off and have been managing it manually.
I never was able to get rcs messages to work
Google maps has basically stopped working Which I’m actually not that upset about.
The default launcher sucks, but I installed Fossify launcher which is great.
There’s no digital assistant, but I ended up getting perplexity to work for that.
On the flipside, the battery life is incredible.
The tracker blocking is amazing.
MicroG is really good.