Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable

I am still waiting for Fairphone and Graphene OS collaboration. This is match made in heaven.

Any Fairphone/GrapheneOS developer reading this? Just do it, document if something is not secure enough for you, but do it. Nothing to think about, you fit together like hand and a glove and any seconds thoughts are depriving the planet of THE PHONE!

Pick the cash we will throw at you and make second generation with the cpu GrapheneOS wants, that will make the /r/GrapheneOS members eyes shine, drooling and crying of joy at the same time. +throw them in a few hardware switches for camera, mic, connectivity,... disabling. No need to wait to be perfect in first iteration (and due to that craziness and perfectionism will never happen), to gain the possibility to be perfect in second or third.

I would love so much to stop buying Google Pixel phones just to install Graphene OS and protect myself from Google and its ecosystem, it seems so counterproductive.

Fairphones consistently doesn't support a quarter of what graphene os requires. See their FAQ:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

Unless Fairphone becomes significantly better in their security and update policy and integrate a whole lot of new features it's not gonna happen.

This is the whole point, they should stop nitpicking and start to do it (GrapheneOS side), even if it is not going to be THE most secure phone, there is enough of features that are far more useful then just security (like privacy). I don't mind if they make it payable. With money they will get (I suspect there will be quite a bit less pixels sold) they can make a new phone that will have all the bells and whistles GrapheneOS wants and on the other side, Fairphone developers will figure out it is $$$ worthy to do it.

GrapheneOS has bunch of requirements that are expensive while Fairphone has zero chance to figure out, if investing would make any economical sense, while their normal users dont really care about that security but might regarding privacy. This is a stale-mate position.

Found info about GrapheneOS installations, 250k users(1). Lets say 25% are on old pixels. This is 60k sold pixels.

All Fairphones sold by 2022 were 400k(2).

1. 2024, https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12281-how-many-grapheneos-u...

2. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone

> This is the whole point, they should stop nitpicking and start to do it (GrapheneOS side), even if it is not going to be THE most secure phone, there is enough of features that are far more useful then just security (like privacy). I don't mind if they make it payable.

This feels super entitled to me. GrapheneOS Devs have a mission and they get to make that. You get it for free and if you like it you can give them money. If they don't support the hardware you like you are free to fork it and get it to run yourself.

And if security isn't something you care about but privacy is and you feel like there's a difference here you can still install /e/os or lineageos and similar on the fairphone.

Sure they have a mission. But sometimes mission can be done by taking 1 step back to later make 2 steps forward in fast pace.

At the end all profit. While in current state, the culprit, Google profits.

And please keep fallacies like "do it yourself" for yourself, I am talking about collaboration, feel free to open another thread on top level about forks.

Same goes for /e/ ... they just dont compare.

GrapheneOS has two use-cases that are they excelling with, security and privacy.

While security is not really my threat model (some rubber-hose cryptography aka large wrench, solves this issue for any attacker), privacy violations are everyones issue. Even if they dont care.

An OS which focuses on security and privacy with slightly imperfect hardware is much better than an OS which focuses on spyware and tracking from an adtech company on the same hardware.

/e/os and LineaseOS are neither, and are both available on the Fairphone.