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The Fairphone (Gen. 6)

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155 points DavideNL | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 09:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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pickledoyster ◴[25 Jun 25 10:16 UTC] No.44375563[source]▶
available with /e/OS too https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-s...

As I near the eol of my daily driver, I'm considering a Fairphone, but what it's missing is a folding card holder, like the Satechi wallet stand for iPhone. Putting the phone in horizontal mode on a table and using a bt keyboard is how I do a lot of my writing

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IlikeKitties ◴[25 Jun 25 11:04 UTC] No.44375865[source]▶
This question always comes up:

The Reason GrapheneOS isn't made for Fairphones Officially is that Fairphones lack a lot of base requirements for official support:

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

There's nothing preventing anyone from making a 3rd Party port of GrapheneOS to Fairphones, it just seems no one does.

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jeroenhd ◴[25 Jun 25 12:10 UTC] No.44376366[source]▶
Which features specifically do Fairphones miss? It seems to me like most of those requirements are all part of the (mostly open-source) software stack. The Fairphone uses a standard Qualcomm chip that should work as well or as badly as a Pixel SoC.

The "Complete monthly Android Security Bulletin patches without any regular delays longer than a week for device support code (firmware, drivers and HALs)" part isn't even true for Pixels.

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1. gruez ◴[25 Jun 25 12:22 UTC] No.44376464[source]▶
>The "Complete monthly Android Security Bulletin patches without any regular delays longer than a week for device support code (firmware, drivers and HALs)" part isn't even true for Pixels.

Doesn't the ASB get published at the same time as pixel updates? So by definition it's up to date.

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2. jeroenhd ◴[25 Jun 25 14:23 UTC] No.44377671[source]▶
Yes, but vulnerabilities don't always get backported to older (supported) devices immediately. I distinctly recall one case where an Android CVE was patched months later on one Pixel model compared to the others that were in support. However, because search engines have all become terrible in the age of AI, I can only find vague references.

I did, for instance, find a case where Google Project Zero published a blog post on a vulnerability while their Pixel 6 was still four days away from the first updates: https://9to5google.com/2023/03/20/pixel-6-march-2023-update/

I myself regularly find my Pixel only noticing updates half a month later unless I manually check while my Samsung tablet notifies me immediately once my quarterly update is available. It's quite annoying to have to check for updates manually every week, but I suppose updates are technically available.