Hope this trend continues. My Pixel has a solid 5 years left easily but after that this'd be great. Looking at Framework laptops as well.

I bought two a few weeks ago. One my wife and I, each. We both love it so far. Also because we just barely missed the promo for free fairbuds, they supplied us with two gift cards for equivalent deal.

Fantastic customer service.

Responsive fingerprint scanner

PTSD triggered xd

I'm in the US and bought one. Put LineageOS on it, and I'm really enjoying it. It has like double the battery life of my old phone, and I don't know if that's because of the phone or because none of my apps are constantly uploading my personal data.

Canadian checking in: I can haz?

I've tried to finding if they'd work in Australia so i can import one. Our telcos are super restrictive about phones becase we shut 3G and coaling our emergency number is fraught with issues on many phones

Oh, so does this mean it's popular enough for a bunch of people to buy as much of them as possible and sell them in the US at %500 percent of what they're worth?

Because that's what will happen.

A thousand dollars?!?! Sorry, I ain't no thousandaire.

Not from Murena (main /e/OS developer):
https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/?wcpbc-manual-country=CA

That one is well supported by /e/OS.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-Murenas-custom-e-OS-compare-to-Googles-Android/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Dollaridoos?

Sells for $649.99 / £569 (roughly AU$1,100)

Worryingly Murena (main /e/OS developer) is not selling it there:
https://murena.com/products/smartphones/?wcpbc-manual-country=AU

Why are you using Quora?

When you can use this instead:

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

There's 400 million monthly active users on Quora (of which tens of percent are bots).

That link is in my answer.

My Sony's battery lasts a week in sparse use with /e/OS. It was the surveillance wasting energy.

The only thing it's missing is graphene OS support :(

I have one too, really like it. Performamce is pretty much on par with my previous phone, Pixel 7, though battery is much better. The slow USB-c port sucks, but fortunately I can use an SD card for large file transfers. I just had to get a case because the body is a bit too slippery for me.

Which sony runs e/os? I like their phones, had no idea they were compatible with e/os

Regional restricted phone. Can't even deliver through forwarding company because store does not accept payment method with billing address from my country.

European companies struggle with scale. Canada is neglected by Fairphone.

It would be completely fine for me if this company could not deliver the phone to my country. Logistics is difficult and expensive. If i wanted to get one anyway, i could just deliver it through forwading company from my country, for an additional delivery fee. The main problem however, which i am the most outraged about, is that they intentionally restrict payment from countries where they will not deliver, even though i have money and can deliver through third party delivery service.

CalyxOS

Relocked bootloader for security, banking apps in seperate user profits, built-in work profiles for the more needed but shit apps.

I am loving it on my fairphone 6 so far, and the flasher tool was very easy and it automatically triggers the locking steps so you can't mess it up.

CalyxOS works on it too reportedly.

Really really enjoying calyx on my fairphone 6 (non plus).

Take this with a grain of salt as i am not an expert but when i looked into it if you sell knowing it will go to a forwarding service to a specific country legally it then counts as selling to that country and the seller is on the hook for all the regulations so they have to block it.

May i interest you in Linux support instead?

I would've gotten this if I could (not available in India). And just to let you know, you're the only reason I want this device.

In an old secondary phone for testing sure! Not confident enough to have this on my main phone

If it's just for file transfers, have you tried local send? That's only limited by your local connection speed to your own network. Any 2 devices on the same network can transfer arbitrarily many/large files back and forth

This is simply due to a strict compliance process which is a good thing

Yea i've used copyparty a few times, it does work reliably and fast

Then it is a regional restriction. Its one thing when company does not bother selling it in other country, and a completely different thing when it is intentionally restricting product sales in those countries. And unlike software, physical products cannot be just pirated, while smuggling is significantly risker.

In what way forcing a regional restriction a good thing? All banks in my country support international payment methods like master card and visa, while most banks also provide and option to register an euro card. How does intentionally not accepting international payment even in euro just because the card is registered in other country, a good thing and counts as a strict complience?

I really want this, but my threshold for acceptable compromise is -5% of the performance of the snapdragon 8E G6 extreme (flagship)/A20.

Again i don't know for sure but from my understanding to answer this question and the one you asked ironblossom.

If a company accepts payment and ships to a fowarding service knowing it is going to a certain country then that is legally the same as if they shipped it themselves.

If their product is not certified to be sold in that country the seller now can face heavy fines.

If their product is defective and causes damage and they don't have insurance for that country then the seller can be on the hook for heavy payouts.

To prevent this the seller must block the sale.

Fuck our politicians for this. Yet another let industry decide legislation bullshit decision.

if it becomes a successful brand it will get BANNED

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/?q=sony

Cool computers, but Framework supports fascists

Looks like a relatively closed issue https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/10/14/framework-flame-war-erupts-over-linux-controversy/1466815

Maybe so, but the US is just a side quest for them anyway. It certainly won't be banned in the EU.

Does Linux actually work on the 6+? I haven't been able to find any info on compatibility other than it supposedly existing.

The Fairphone (Gen. 6) and Fairphone (Gen. 6+) are software-compatible, so you can install the Nura image on either model.

https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6)

This is because you have a limited understanding of what their compliance process entails. I don’t think they are intentionally refusing to accept payment from a list of countries but rather they have not completed the due diligence or fulfilled these compliance requirements yet. They are a relatively small company still.

Dang, I was looking to get a new phone for myself, but that price is just too much for me. Looks like I'll just buy a used pixel 8

If someone is not familiar with Nura, it was previously known as the PostmarketOS but changed the name last week.

I own the FP6 and my mother owns the FP6+. We're both happy with it.

Wow a group funded by Linus Tech Tips turns out to be full of chuds, color me surprised

I quite fancy a FP6 / FP6+, but unfortunately my FP3+ is still going strong with it's 2nd battery and 2nd USB port (due to cheap cables wearing it out), so I'll probably have to keep using it for another few years... 😉

Several are able to run Lineage (I believe a lot of the 1 series as well as a couple of the 5 and 10 series too), and since e/OS is based on Lineage, they can more easily support it. Check the link the other person commented!

If you order from another place you'd be importing.

If, for example, you order something from China to somewhere in the European customs union, directly from China and not a European company, you'd be the importer and as such are responsible for following your country's regulations.

Imagine being a seller and someone from another country, perhaps one you don't know much about and one that is not in a customs union with the country you are in, orders something from you. There's no reason you would have to comply with regulations of that country.