Now if only they'd support Graphene OS or something like that. Preferably signed, so that banking apps would have a chance of working.
In the long run bonus - Linux support would be nice too.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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Fairphones are pretty well supported with PostmarketOS which is mainline Linux. Audio support being one big feature that is missing on all of them. Luca Weiss from Fairphone is working on mainline Linux patches for these devices. The Fairphone 6 booted with Linux support on the first day it was released (though still missing many drivers)
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Fairphone
I wish Fairphone would hire more People to work on Linux support
Indeed.
This phone is so niche that the only OS that it only makes sense to work in being compatible with GrapheneOS, the crรจme de la crรจme of custom OSes.
I'd just ship from Pixel immediately if Fairphone ups their game to the point GrapheneOS wants to work with them.
@rollerbang @ryanee@anonsys.net CalyxOS/LineageOS/postmarketOS/UBTouch and/or /e/OS would be better for trying to get banking support, they are compatible with plenty more devices including Google Pixel while GrapheneOS is only compatible with Google Pixel
Sure, but I'm trying to see it from a manufacturer's perspective. They've got to put effort in an OS regardless, so maybe it wouldn't be too much extra effort, if any, to have Grapehene supported.
It would require an entire separate TPM chip, integration of it on the main PCB, and all the the firmware and software handling that comes with that, and collaboration with the GrapheneOS team (which I hear on forums and people who have worked with them, is often not a pleasant experience) for an extremely small percentage of their sales.
Doing /e/ or calyx would definitely be significantly easier.
I hear all of that, but I'm going to maintain some hope since otherwise I'm stuck on google hardware for the foreseeable future.
My banking app works great on /e/os.
Mine does not sadly. Locked and all, but still it wonโt do it.
Is calyxos not good enough for you?
Such a cool phone. We need more like this.
... With a 3.5mm audio jack.
It's what every phone should have to be like.
Honestly quite the downgrade in some departments imo. You cant swap the battery without a screwdriver anymore (was great for hiking with a secondary battery) and no USB3 which also means no DP over USBC.
cant swap the battery without a screwdriver anymore
The horror. Imagine using any other phone where you can't take the battery out at all (at least until 2027 when all phones will be forced to have removable batteries).
I think Fairphone has bigger contentions to deal with than having to use a screwdriver.
Actually to me that's an improvement as my back plate, and thus my battery, has come loose causing the phone to sometimes turn off when it falls.
Stop dropping your phone then lol But yeah there is always a tradeoff i guess.
I was reading that actually this change helped make the phone thinner and lighter, and they used a softer battery instead of the old one with a hard shell, so it was definitely a compromise.
I lost a motorola battery off a cliff I wasn't even standing particularly near once while attempting a battery swap... I suppose I succeeded at swapping the battery at least.
Old phones were like this! It was super easy to replace screens, batteries, etc. on smartphones 10 years ago. Then everything became glued, sealed, and enshittified.
And a 2/10 for global availability
If only they supplied the parts for older models lmao
They do, at least for the FP3
And fp2, fp4 and fp5,...
there are still spare parts for the fp2