So apparently you can run Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 2. That's a really
nice development.
https://twitter.com/Fairphone/status/751428733148561408
Michael
On 04/07/16 06:13, 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.
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Sven
On 2 Jul 2016, at 11:19 AM, FVZ <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Fairphone is a work in progress from what I can see. The first
revision was mostly focusing on just making a phone that was built
from conflicts-free materials, and much easier to self repair. There
has been a great deal of moral support from them for free software
but it hasn't been a major focus as of yet.
With the Fairphone 2 they are trying to get much more free software
friendly but this isn't going much deeper than the current AOSP
level, the drivers will still be proprietary simply due to the
manufactures not playing nice as usual. It isn't much more free than
a phone running Cyanogen.
Now that they have already successful shipped a product and are going
into a second round they will start to get more leverage in trying to
free up the lower level hardware. They heading in the right direction
but this will take time and trying to get stubborn hardware
manufacturers to pay attention.
About the only warning I will give about the current phone is 529,38
€ before shipping which is approximately $780 AUD, also considering
the phone is designed for EU phone standards and I am not sure how
compatible that is with our local networks.
Michael Verrenkamp
On 01/07/16 22:00,
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Subject: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social
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Howdy all,
Many of our recent meetings have touched on the difficulty of obtaining
a handheld computer (a “smartphone”) that works with only free software.
Has anyone looked into the Fairphone <URL:https://www.fairphone.com/>?
There have been some models historically that could be made to work with
some degree of free software, but this is one where the designers are
proud of how the hardware is in control of the owner who bought it.
They deliver only within Europe for now. Does anyone know someone in the
EU (which for now still includes the UK!) who could help some of us by
ordering a few Fairphone devices and delivering them to Australia?
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