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Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence (www.ifixit.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys' opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (21 children)

That and supporting grapheneos would do it for me

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    The Fairphone 4 supports /e/.

    It seems graphene is limiting itself to Pixel devices. The developer is also mostly a one man show, so I don't think he has the capacity to support many devices. He's probably just busy keeping up with Pixel devices as-is.

    What I would like to know is, how do /e/ and GrapheneOS compare.

    Can't really find info on that.

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  • [+] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Calyx Os supports the FP4 and announced support for the FP5

    That just to be said.

    I have e os on FP4 and I would describe my experience as follows: Do you want to switch from IOS to Android without loosing the style of the launcher and gain some privacy? Go for it

    If you want an Android that does a lot for you and give you tools like a vpn, a tracker blocker ect... Go for it

    If you want to customize your experience (e.g. have an "normal" Android launcher, switch accent colors ...) ? You get a very rocky experience to say the best.

    And at least for the FP4, some stock apps like the Cam were just not working, but to be fair it seemed like that was a suppychain problem...

    I consider changing to calyx Os, expecting to get a more customizable Android.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Is e os able to use all the camera lenses? That's one problem I have with custom roms, they're often unable to hook into the camera API in order to use anything other than the main back and front camera

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

    Had to check real quick: Yes in the current Version of the stock cam it does recognise all cameras and even takes snappy pictures. That was the problem before but it seems to be patched.

    Anyways due to this problem i switched to gcam

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Such a shame that this kind of issue is a thing in the first place. I'd love to use a Fairphone and slap DivestOS on it, but potentially losing two lenses I paid for isn't great at all

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I think that should work, due to DivestOS being a fork of LinageOS just like eOS, and in fact the camera of eOS is just the cam of LinageOS (thats what i meant with supplychain problem). So i assume that DivestOS might just have the same camera app as eOS

    But you could probably confirm that by looking into the repos

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Now that you say it, I've never thought about the default cam, I've always been using OpenCamera

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Yeaa but the open tool being sold for profit they are not my go to apps anymore...

    But I still need to switch my calendar to the newly made fork

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Do you mean simplemobiletools? OpenCamera is not part of that, I believe theirs is called Simple Camera

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Ohh you are right, I mixed that up...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    So I just installed the default lineage cam again, and would you look at that, it can use both lenses on my OnePlus 5T. Would love to have more manual controls though.

    Thank you so much for reminding me this app exists

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yes that's what drove me to gcam

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh well, having aurora store installed for one single app isn't worth it to me. My second lens is for night mode shots, and I barely use that. It's just nice to have access to it at all.

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