What do you like most about your Fairphone?

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I definitely love having no guilt when using the phone. I also love the Fairphone open os. I needed a new case and a new battey and it was super simple to buy and replace them. No hassles whatsoever. The camera is great and I’ve used it more than I thought I would. The apps I use run well. My Fairphone is one of my most treasured objects. I love showing it off.

What about you?

2

I like that I can easily add much more storage space to my FP1U than even the most expensive iPhone X has. I like that my FP1U has a bigger battery than an iPhone 8. And even if I had to replace it by an FP2, the whole device would still be more affordable than any iPhone X repair other than the screen.

3

Open OS independent of GAFAs, modularity, great community forum, and the whole set of values that it comes with. What else? :slight_smile:

4

Everything. :fairy: :phone:

5

I like most (although still being on Lollipop) that it simply works flawless in any way. Take it, use it.
Definitely a very good experience with my first ever smartphone.

Furthermore this great, open, helpfull and friendly community behind.

6

For me it is being fair.

7

After one month I can tell you that I’m extremely happy with my second-hand FP2. The final outcome was better than I could ever expect. I use the FP Open OS rooted with microG, Xposed, OpenBmapNlpBackend and Déjà Vu. I run all apps that I need or want and have no connection whatsoever to Google or Apple services. Root gives me enormous flexibility of customization. My location services are 100% local (memory database). Priority is always given to FLOSS apps, and I donate to one app creator every month according to how useful they’ve been to me. After some hiccups due to rogue apps I have a perfectly stable phone. The phone is robust and user experience is perfectly smooth. It has amazing battery life because I was able to freeze all battery hogs that I can’t discard and minimize home phoning using microG for apps that need to be always on such as Telegram. It’s not the fastest phone ever but it’s a very competent phone, I don’t need more than what it offers me. The old camera is its weakest point but it serves me well most of the time, and one day I’ll get a new camera cheap in the second-hand market. The speaker isn’t stereo but to my surprise it’s much louder than any smartphone speaker I’ve had before and quality of sound is better than I expected it would be. The amount of memory available with an added SDXC 32GB card is extraordinarily large. I was able to put in place a functional backup system that allows me for the first time to recover all my setup in hours if needed. I would never dream of anything even close in terms of data security and privacy with previous Androids. And I have the best phone anyone can get under a sustainability perspective - even more than the norm, since I bought mine second hand. :slight_smile:

8

The fairness and modularity.
I also like the fact this phone is part of a “story”: it’s not the perfect product, but a big step. And Fairphone has always made clear they aim for much more than they already reached.

9

In the beginning I liked the Fairphone because it is fair as far as possible.
But this phone is like a friendship which becomes stronger the longer it lasts .

Now i like the Fairphone as well as it gives me a lot of fun and freedom:

  • Several options of OS
  • Life (nearly) without Google
  • Can use FOS to a great extent
  • Changing parts and modification like new camera ( in most cases not necessary to contact manufacturer)
  • Help from Forum members
10

Do you mean FPOS, FPOOS or F(L)OSS. So many similar abbreviations make small typos fatal.

11

That it’s produced more ethically than other phones.

12

Thanks for your question. I really was not clear. What i mean is FLOSS:
Free/Libre and Open Source Software.
(FOSS means the same thing but is less clear)

13

I like the fact that the Fairphone is a tangible symbol of a shift in consumerism; or at least I hope it is. Now we can have a Fairtrade :phone: with our Fairtrade :banana:.

16

There are 3 things i like specifically about the fairphone:

  1. I like long lasting products. This rules out most smartphones which you seem to have to replace every few years. I used most of my phones 4-5 years.
  2. I like the openness of the software and the ability to install other software without dirty hacks. It allowed me to install the google and apple free SailfishOS. I like FLOSS too, and SailfishOS seems to get quite close.
  3. Dual SIM, nowadays more models seem to be available dual sim, but most aren’t.

Now that i have the fairphone i like the fairness and community too, but those weren’t the things that made me buy one.

17

what i like most about my fp, is that there is such an active group of people behind it/connected to it who try their best to make things better. even if it’s just small steps … i also like the modularity of the phone itself, although i think more parts should be replacable without having to replace bigger parts.

22

The transparent cover … When it doesn’t crack :’(