anyone using a fairphone 6?

[GeorgeC]

My phone, yet again, is about to be bricked by inexcusably bad append-only bloatware. It's time to look for the exit ramp.

My fantasy is a rotary phone in a backpack with a VOIP ATA; pairs well with a van down by the river.
Cartel blackberries are a close second but probably hard to come by on ebay.
A punk move would be to get a jitterbug, but I assume they're preloaded with spyware.
Too bad two way pagers aren't a thing anymore.

Anyway. Unless I'm missing something, that leaves the fairphone 6. I recently learned that it ships with de-googled android.

Of course, that may just mean it comes with non-google shovelware.

Anyone using one?

 

[RyanShort1]

Never heard of that one, but if I ever switch to a job that doesn't keep my tied to the Apple products we use, I'd be seriously interested in this: https://www.braxtech.net/brax3

 

[GeorgeC]

Never heard of that one, but if I ever switch to a job that doesn't keep my tied to the Apple products we use, I'd be seriously interested in this: https://www.braxtech.net/brax3

I couldn't make it past the horrid bling-filled website. Other sources suggest that it's nonsense. Pass.

 

[asicer]

Have you considered a Nokia 3210 or Lightphone III?

 

[GeorgeC]

Have you considered a Nokia 3210

I loved my Nokia candybar phones, but I loved the E72 even more. Mmm, Symbian OS. Alas.

The Clicks Communicator looks cute, but alas, is not Googlefrei.

or Lightphone III?

I really want to like the lightphone, but it is also a closed platform.

 

[asicer]

The Punkt MP02 looks interesting, but I'd be afraid of walking out the door with a calculator by accident.

 

[AV8R_87]

Get an android phone and flash LineageOS on it.

LineageOS - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[GeorgeC]

The Punkt MP02 looks interesting, but I'd be afraid of walking out the door with a calculator by accident.

Looks cute, but also closed. More honest than most:

It would be more honest still if you could flip the buttons but they didn't actually do anything.

 

[cdb]

You may want to take a look at GrapheneOS, which is stock Android but modified to remove Google tracking hooks/services at the OS level: https://grapheneos.org/features

I've been using it for several years and been happy with it. Only real downside from my perspective is that only Pixel devices are supported.

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My phone, yet again, is about to be bricked by inexcusably bad append-only bloatware. It's time to look for the exit ramp.

My fantasy is a rotary phone in a backpack with a VOIP ATA; pairs well with a van down by the river.
Cartel blackberries are a close second but probably hard to come by on ebay.
A punk move would be to get a jitterbug, but I assume they're preloaded with spyware.
Too bad two way pagers aren't a thing anymore.

Anyway. Unless I'm missing something, that leaves the fairphone 6. I recently learned that it ships with de-googled android.

Of course, that may just mean it comes with non-google shovelware.

Anyone using one?

 

[WDD]

Or just buy a nice used I phone on Gazelle with 256 GB memory and not worry about it. Your 64 GB current memory seems a bit light.

 

[theplanesalon]

Or just buy a nice used I phone on Gazelle with 256 GB memory and not worry about it. Your 64 GB current memory seems a bit light.

You ca never have enough storage

 

[GeorgeC]

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My phone, yet again, is about to be bricked by inexcusably bad append-only bloatware. It's time to look for the exit ramp.

I take it back; looks like they finally added some compaction. Will wonders never cease?