(on Fairphone)

Posted Sep 29, 2019 13:02 UTC (Sun) by Herve5 (subscriber, #115399)
In reply to: Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone (Ars Technica) by smurf
Parent article: Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone (Ars Technica)

Incidentally, I find the Fairphone 3 specs twice better than the Purism on almost all criteria (for a similar 'high' price, fully acceptable to me).
I for one am waiting the open OSes versions on Fairphones; there are a number, and in both previous versions they were efficiently supported by Fairphone themselves.
I own a Fairphone 1 (GApps-free and rooted by default android) and a FP2 (similar). I see reasonable progress in SailfishOS on Fairphones too, although there is no option where it'd come delivered straight in the package...
I'd love to see a feature-to-feature comparison between Purism, Sailfish OSes and, yes, also a GApps-free rooted android...

OpenMoko someone?

Posted Sep 29, 2019 13:06 UTC (Sun) by Herve5 (subscriber, #115399) [Link]

Anyone here remembering OpenMoko phones?
Go figure, I still own one. THAT was the very beginnings : even simple calls were at risk of crashing the OS, the GPS (indeed, the only one fully opent at the time) needed 5mn to converge...
But it was open from top to bottom, to the extent that some years ago I still found a complete screen package to replace my broken one...

(on Fairphone)

Posted Oct 6, 2019 17:20 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Fairphone is arguably trying to solve a far easier problem, and thus can use far more mainstream hardware. It can simply use the mainstream SoC's for example... And yes, I know the problem they address isn't EASY. Just easier than what Purism tries to deal with. Now imagine a phone trying to fix BOTH problems at once... 🤯