Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.

• neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The last I looked was that the Pixel was the only phone that allowed you to load a custom rom and relock the bootloader. Other phones kept the bootloader unlocked once it was modded.

  So, graphene could be put on those phones if the devs wanted to do it, but it would be less secure since the bootloader would remain unlocked.

  Also, supporting a small line a phones is probably infinitely easier than a range, of devices, but it would be nice to have another option. Especially now that the Fairphone pice is reasonable.

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  • baduhai@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The last I looked was that the Pixel was the only phone that allowed you to load a custom rom and relock the bootloader. Other phones kept the bootloader unlocked once it was modded.

    That is not the case. SHIFTmq, Motorola and Fairphone allow the bootloader to be relocked with a custom rom. There are many requirements the Fairphone lacks for GrapheneOS, but relocking the bootloader is not one of them.

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    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thanks! I guess what I read before was either old or just wrong.

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  • Prism@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Fairphone can be locked after flashing a custom rom. /e/-OS is officially supported. You can even buy it from them with /e/ preinstalled. iode-OS also works. I don’t know about Graphene OS, but tbh, I don’t see the benefit of Graphene OS for the average user. /e/ has built in privacy features, is google-free and runs MicroG as alternative to Google Play Services. Most apps run fine. You can even use your apps that you purchased from the PlayStore.

    I’ve been using Fairphone 5 with /e/-OS for over a year and love it.

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    • Luffy879@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      /e/ has built in privacy features

      /e/ uses a for profit 3rd party for unencrypted backups. That alone should be a big red flag.

      is google-free and runs MicroG

      So it runs google. MicroG just limits what data is sent to google.

      You can even use your apps that you purchased from the PlayStore.

      You can do the same with aurora store. That’s available on just about every phone.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You can do the same with aurora store. That’s available on just about every phone.

        not if the app attempts to verify its license through the play store. you need microg for that, or patch it

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      • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well even graphene os still runs a version of Android. So there is still some goggle code in that. But ripping oit google play, amd various goggle services means goggle doesn’t track you with those. Yeah if you still ise gmail and log into toutube every day they will.

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      • Prism@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It a perfectly usable Android for the average user. Everything works out of the boy. If it is not for you, fine. Buy a Pixel.

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    • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      e-OS is said to have the worst security of pretty much all Android distributions.

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      • Prism@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They are usually a month behind

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• MicKet@swiss.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  @vga @Tangent5280

  https://www.kuketz-blog.de/weshalb-grapheneos-aktuell-nur-google-pixel-geraete-unterstuetzt/

  (From an Interview - The relevant parts are in English)

  Security seems not easy.

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