Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social values

2016-07-13 Thread Ben Finney
On 03-Jul-2016, Sven@GMX wrote: > I had my Fairphone 1 ordered and shipped to Germany and then sent to > Australia back in 2014. But for now I am back in Germany. So, let's > talk about your idea, Ben. So far, no-one else has said they want to get in on an order of Fairphone 2 and share delivery

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-10 Thread Michael Verrenkamp
b@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au> Subject: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social values Message-ID: <85bn2iuwqf@benfinney.id.au <mailto:85bn2iuwqf@benfinney.id.au>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Howdy all, Many of our recent meetings ha

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 01:32:57 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > The problem is not people moving on quickly but hardware designers moving > > on. > > Yes it is the people those developers/testers with the S3 have > probably upgraded to newer phones and so most have abandoned the S3 in > terms of

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew Pam
On 05/07/16 01:18, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > And does everything work perfectly on CM 11 ? Yes, and has done for a long time. The only issue is that sometimes the UI restarts immediately after unlocking the phone and I have to unlock a second time. Otherwise everything works perfectly. Cheers,

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 12:04:56 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting > updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move > on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to get a bit more life. The problem is not people

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 5/07/2016 12:24 AM, Andrew Pam wrote: > On 05/07/16 00:04, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting >> updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move >> on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to get a bit

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew Pam
On 05/07/16 00:04, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting > updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move > on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to get a bit more life. I'm still using my S3 with CM 11 and

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Olivier Mehani
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 06:17:58PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > The Google > account is simply a means to get the apps I want from the Play store and > not much else. You can also flash your phone with a stock CyanogenMod ROM, with neither Google Apps nor Cyanogen (?) Apps, and be Free(tm).

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 4/07/2016 6:13 AM, Sven@GMX wrote: > I used to to have the Fairphone 1 working, first in the Optus network and > then Vodafone back in 2014. Both working fine with the FP. Yes, but the FF2 only has these LTE radios Bands 3 (1800 MHz), 7 (2600 MHz), 20 (800 MHz) Compare that to

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social values

2016-07-03 Thread Sven@GMX
I had my Fairphone 1 ordered and shipped to Germany and then sent to Australia back in 2014. But for now I am back in Germany. So, let's talk about your idea, Ben. Cheers, -- Sven sven_andri...@gmx.net > On 1 Jul 2016, at 12:40 AM, Ben Finney > wrote: > >

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-03 Thread Sven@GMX
oday's Topics: >> >>1. Fairphone: The smartphone with social values (Ben Finney) >> >> >> -------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:40:08 +1000 >> From: Ben Finney

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-02 Thread FVZ
0:08 +1000 From: Ben Finney <ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> To: free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au Subject: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social values Message-ID: <85bn2iuwqf@benfinney.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 H