Technology

How does e/OS/ compare with Lineage?

Funny coincidence: Fairphone has a blog post titled exactly that. And they say the same thing on their shop page. You're going to replace your phone eventually, but Fairphone is the only phone company I know trying to stretch that out.

This is true. When the original Fairphone came out I didn't get it because I had a working HTC. My next phone was purchased as an emergency when my current phone fell into water, so I had to walk into a phone shop and buy an immediate replacement. But that was the day that I decided to buy the Fairphone 3... Because the phone that fell into water was sealed and glued together, and there was no way to remove the battery or dry it out. It buzzed and beeped to death in my hand taking all of my data with it (internal memory only).

I've been rocking the FP3 since then. Upgraded the camera, replaced the battery twice, and once replaced the lower assembly because the usb3 port got damaged and couldn't hold the cable.

My wife has the same phone now. So I could upgrade to the FP4 and use my FP3 for parts, in case she ever breaks a screen or needs a battery. But why bother? This works just fine.

Well not all computers can be upgraded unfortunately. Looking at you MacBooks with SSDs welded to the motherboard…

Years ago google was looking at doing a modular phone. It was basically a frame with modules on the back that contained the battery, storage, cameras, and even the processor. The screen was even replaceable in a similar way. I really want someone to do another project ara.

Does anyone know why they don’t have a headphone jack?

The fact that even they don’t include one actually makes me respect the existing phone manufacturers a lot more. I always assumed that Apple did it to sell airpods, and then the others did it just to copy Apple or sell their own dongles/headphones.

But if even an organization like this chose not to include one, then maybe not including it really does make the phone a lot smaller or cheaper or waterproof or whatever.

That being said, I can’t believe cars don’t have aux ports anymore. Surely the cost and size isn’t significant on that scale.

Disclaimer: both for cars and my phone, I’m generally happy with Bluetooth. But I want the option to use a headphone jack without needing to buy or remember a dongle. It’s insidious because the kinds of things that you would need a headphone jack for are uncommon enough that you won’t get into the habit of bringing a dongle for them (e.g. road trips, full day of phone interviews)

This would be a middle ground between a PinePhone and a big standard Android phone

It’s still running Android, but it doesn’t have Google Play Services

I've had one for a while now and overall I'm happy with it. The screen and camera are as good as some other devices and it doesn't support all of some bands that US providers use so service coverage may vary. I should also add that the touch sensitivity is a little off. I'm not sure if thats software or hardware to blame though.

I'm on a T-Mobile reseller and excluding situations like being inside a data center or being outside of town camping or whatever my service has been acceptable. Its also less an issue for me as in almost always in WiFi range.

I don't think the phone is upgradable. It is repairable though. The fact that it has an easily removable battery is enough to justify the device for me as glued in dead batteries have historically been my biggest issue with device longevity.

Yes, it's a perfectly usable device.

You can also use normal android on it, it does come with stock option too

Same. In my experience as well, almost all alternatives to Google Maps either:

• don't have Android Auto support (a must for me)

• don't have local coffee shops (you'd be surprised how often these apps fail to find 7-Brew coffee shops...)

• don't actually give you enough time to turn (Waze... Which is also owned by Google btw)

Waze is the closest of these but man it's annoying with that third bullet point. It's also not FOSS.

I can only imagine Magic Maps falls into one of those three categories too.