🏒 Canadian Fairphoners! 🇨🇦

[aerler]

Hi Folks! Great to see that there is a Canadian community!
Based on the discussion here I feel confident that I’ll get a Fairphone 2 (probably Open OS) for use here in Canada.
I’m based in the GTA (Waterloo), so I will probably follow Jonnydark’s lead and go with Fido.
I’ll probably import the phone through family members in Germany - any recommendations for that?
Andre

[Jonnydark]

Hi @aerler glad you’re joining the Canuck Fairphone movement!

Importing is pretty simple… just have it shipped to your family members then have them ship it to you. I recommend a courier service where you can track where it’s at.

Installing Open OS is really simple. Follow these instructions: Fairphone Open OS Download and Instructions (LINK)

BTW I’m partial of the Translucent cover. It looks amazing and makes it feel like a very special phone.

[aerler]

Thanks for the link.
I kinda agree: the translucent cover makes it look very special!
My concern about importing it is mainly with respect to customs… what was your experience?

[Stefan]

Translucent covers have proved to be a bit “unstable”…:

(Original/regular) Cover issues (deformed, splits, cracks) (see first post)

[image] Quick fix? Anybody experienced the same problem? Can it be glued? If yes, What is the best glue Seb

If you don’t want to handle a possible warranty return in the future (especially since living outside the EU), I advice you to go for one of the new slim covers.

[aerler]

So, the new slim cases are supposed to be hardier? I would have thought the opposite… but I don’t really have any basis for this assumption…

[Stefan]

Please follow this discussion to learn more about the new slim case:

New slim back cover

I just stumbled over the images of the new slim back cover in the Fairphone shop Looks very nice to me! Has anyone already seen those in real? Are they offering the same protection as the original one? Any ideas when they will be available? At the moment it is only possible to pre-order it with a new phone … Greetings, Alex

[Jonnydark]

Hi @aerler

Oh it passed customs no problem!

@Stefan oh no now I’m going to be worried. I’ll just have to cherish it more.

[aerler]

Did you declare the phone for customs or did you have it sent in an undeclared package? I had bad experience with customs before: I ordered a fancy keyboard from the US and had to pay lots of tariff on it…

And Jonnydark, any issues with your translucent cover yet?

[Jonnydark]

@aerler I can’t remember the specifics. I know I had to pay but I couldn’t tell you what anymore. And the clear cover has worked out great for me.

[CathCw]

Hey @blutch!

Good to know that tehre are FP2 owners in Canada! I live in an area where Fido/Rogers doesn’t have coverage, Therefore, my FP1 has become useless since I moved here (Gaspésie). I wanted to buy a FP2 but would live to make sure that it would be working with Koodo or Virgin. Any advice (you or anyone!)?

Also can I call Koodo/Virgin tech employees to know if it would work? Can they garantee it?

Thanks for your help!

Catherine

[urs_lesse]

It might not give you an instant answer, but will certainly get you closer to it:

Will my Fairphone work in another country? (How to check worldwide mobile phone frequencies)

FP1(U) frequency bands [Source] (Made availabel by the Internet archive now.) FP2 frequency bands [Source] (Made availabel by the Internet archive now.) FP3 frequency bands [Source for 2G, 3G and 4G-Bands] — [Source for 4G-Frequency-Bands] How to check the frequencies Thanks to @Irina_Spitznagel! That page - in general - is working for all phones all over the world! Another page for general information: Worldtimezone.com PS.: This is a wiki post, feel free to contribute to it, by clic…

You will probably need to find out about your potential provider’s band as well to find the definitive answer

[CathCw]

Thanks for the links! Most of the providers I asked to were not able to tell me this information and were just asking me to try to put a SIM in it… The thing is I want to be sure before ordering the phone! ^^

[petey]

@CathCw Sure it Will work on koodoo, used my FP2 with then flawlessly for almost a year before moving with Rogers. You won’t have LTE though but won’t notice any difference using FP2

[petey]

@aerler I asked my family member to open the phone, remove all plastics that make it new and send it in another box. Custom declaration: “forgotten phone”. Can’t have any issue with that.

[petey]

Living in Montreal, having my FP2 since almost a year now. Was part of the very first preorderer. I used it on Koodoo without 4G/LTE as it should be the case with all others providers. Lately moved to Rogers thanks to an awesome company package deal and discovered that Rogers has a LTE backup frequency which is in European range. I am now in LTE
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Cheers Fairphone Comrades

[Stefan]

@petey, please read a topic to the end and then post once in reply to any posts you want to refer to. You can either quote someone else’s post (mark text with cursor and press “quote reply”) or refer to someone using @user.

[petey]

@Stefan

@petey, please read a topic to the end and then post once in reply to any posts you want to refer to. You can either quote someone else’s post (mark text with cursor and press “quote reply”) or refer to someone using @user.

Oops sorry, not regular enough on that forum, I realized too late that something wasn’t going as expected Thanks for the tips

[aerler]

Interesting idea! Does it come with an instruction manual or anything like that? You wont send this with your “forgotten” phone, right? But I guess you could send this separately as a letter…

[TobiasF]

@aerler

Does it come with an instruction manual or anything like that?

Look at this unboxing video. That’s the packaging of your FP2 (with “regular” case). There is actually a little “instruction manual” included as this is legally required. But you don’t really need it, the usage is obvious. If you really want to see the “instruction manual”, you can download a PDF here.

[Gilles_Lemay]

Hi

is there a place I can order and have ship to Montreal, Quebec, Canada?

Thank you!