Small comment, unless I’m wrong the Fairphone 4 DOES have stereo speakers. The top one is forward facing, the bottom one is bottom facing.
Consider also, the warranty period and guaranteed software support time. How much is 5 years of both worth to you?
Admittedly, the software support will be less relevant if you choose to use a different OS. But Fairphone committing to 5 years of support might be helpful to the developers of those different OSes.
I’m not sure what your definition of fast charging is, but with the right equipment, the FP3+ charges full in one hour (“QuickCharge”). Of course, it’s not recommendable to discharge to 0 % and charge to 100%, but QuickCharge does it in one hour.
Regarding operating systems, Fairphones never had customROMs ready from day one, but they came became available with a little delay once the community (LineageOS, /e/OS …) had readied them. I am absolutely certain that will be the case with the FP4 as well.
Just mentioning that I have made Sailfish OS build for FP3 which had only some small issues but I haven’t made it public yet because I wanted to fix the issues but then too many other projects caused some lack of time to finish it.
Yes, it was intentional, but I got the link wrong, there were a couple of posts in that topic about the status for the FP3 and this would have been the correct link
Thanks for that. I am not a big fan of UbuTouch. I can’t really explain why. Something with web apps not being real apps? I had the original Ubuntu Touch phone, but it has been quite a while…
Thank you for your major contribution in this area, mal. I see in the forum that you are very active with trying to get Sailfish OS on the Fairphone and working properly.
My concern is that more and more apps, like parking, banking, small money transaction apps, corona passports, etc. appear to require Google services, which locks us into surveillance capitalism with no obvious way to avoid it. As soon as any of those apps are installed, even using /e/, we are kicked back to basically a bog standard Android OS…
Like that will make any difference I think the direction you point out to /e/ etc. is probably the best most can hope for unless they want to engineer their own software and even then they may miss out on lots of apps etc.
It’s a perspective. Laws are not changed by people they are created by people and modified for the best business model…
Laws are not moral or designed for the individuals’ comforts unless that comfort can be sold.
The more laws the more amendments, which are more laws that necessitates more surveillance.
Change yes but
Slavery was abolished in the UK as there was better profit to be made hunting down the slave traders of France and Spain, only possible once the UK had dominion over the North Atlantic ocean.
So Hi @anon93683458 but I’d best not answer your response so please don’t make it too challenging or provocative
All the best