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    [–] Driveway4964@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Fair phone needs support for Graphene

    [–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    Fairphone needs to take security seriously and add support for hardware security features, in order for that to happen. https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112320854846225341

    [–] Driveway4964@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Oh hell, I thought they were good folks. Thank you for making me aware!

    [–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    What they're doing in regards to the environment and paying their workers fair wages (throughout the entire supply chain) is great - unfortunately their security practices aren't. I think buying a Pixel second hand is the best option, it also saves you some money. You already get extended security updates by using GrapheneOS, as they provide full OS updates for the entire period in which Google supplies (firmware) security updates (which tends to be a few years more than they provide Android feature updates. e.g. the Pixel 6a gets 3 years of feature updates but 5 years of security updates. GrapheneOS provides feature updates for the full 5 years).

    [–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    I would not recommend a Pixel 6 or anything newer. Samsung can't seem to get 5g working on their own modems (chip that connects to carrier). Samsung generally uses Qualcomm modems for their expensive products. I do hear less people complain with the Pixel 8 but no one should be complaining about a modem in a phone.

    [–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I wouldn't recommend anything older than a Pixel 6, because the 5a will reach its EOL in August, and all the older devices already reached their EOL. Regarding the modem, I don't know what you are talking about, I never had any issues on the 6a and the 7 Pro, and never heard about such issues. But feel free to explain this to me.

    [–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I have the 6. I set my phone to prefer LTE to gain HOURS of battery life and to get a more stable connection. I always have an issue where the phone may take a minute after pressing call to actually initiate a phone call.

    My next phone is probably going to be OnePlus. Either the 6T on PostMarketOS if it actually works or just the latest cheaper model (but I'll wait till the 13, the 6 is only like 2.5 years old).

    [–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Isn't the 6T like ancient? Also, bye bye app compatibility and battery life when running postmarketOS.

    [–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Yeah, its 6 years old. I'm not recommending people to try PostMarketOS. It's just on my to do list.

    [–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

    It would be a much taller order but support for PostMarketOS (a Linux distro meant for mobile) would be huge.