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Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has anyone compared this to a PinePhone?

I bought a PinePhone and it works great as a mini laptop to do light programming. But as a phone I don’t think I could trust it, and the interface seemed to need some work. It was cool (though awkward to control) running full desktop apps like VLC though.

Perhaps I should have tried a different OS though. I couldn’t tell how much of it was software vs hardware limitations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This would be a middle ground between a PinePhone and a big standard Android phone

It’s still running Android, but it doesn’t have Google Play Services

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The fairphone has google services preinstalled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The one that's going to be available in the US is the de-googled version.