I was hesitant for a long time, but I'm not using the Murena Fairphone 6 here in the states. I see a lot of people hesitant about it, will it work for X or Y, etc. Suprisingly there are very very few things that haven't worked for me, it's mostly a fork of LineageOS with microG.

Still, I wanted to open a forum for folks who are ready to leave Google thanks to them killing off installing your own apps, maybe my experience will help those who are questioning if they should or not

Well how is it?

How about messengers?
Specifically Signal and Threema.
Are they still working as expected?
This is the biggest fear I have. Messaging is essential, but often seems to rely on google services for real time message push.
I am currently using a vanilla LineageOS with basic Google Services and Apps installed because of this fear.

Good and bad, but mostly good. It's a solid phone, it does pretty much everything I could ask for. I was really nervous when I tried to activate it (I'm still on Google Fi, for now until I decide on a good carrier), and it activated without a hitch. The /e/OS App Lounge has pretty much every app, at least there aren't any I haven't found.

Setup was like setting up a phone back in the gingerbread days. Completely green field, figuring out what apps I liked and what I didn't, there was definitely no guided "this is your phone", more of a "Okay here you are, go make it your own now" vibe, like original Android.

No wallet, and I haven't been able to get my Samsung watch to work with it, but there's hope on the horizon there. For me, these are worth it to leave Google behind.

It doesn't have every bell and whistle, I'd say it's nothing fancy. It's a solid phone. It has a good camera, battery, screen, but nothing amazing. I'd say it's very... fair.

I have no desire to stay on Google, but also have a lot of use cases to migrate before I can cut loose. Shared calendars, email accounts (should be able to sync with FairEmail as I work on migrating accounts), maps (OSM address search never works for me), Fi carrier, maybe others. Was the LineageOS transition a big change? How often do you need to troubleshoot for app installation, carrier configuration, etc?

Not OP, but /e/os has microg and for me signal is working fine (also /e/os on Fairphone 6). /e/os also has Unifiedpush integrated, so if you are willing to spend a bit of time you could use Molly (Signal fork) without google services

How's the camera?

I am a T-Mobile user, so does it work on the T-Mobile network? I can't remember if Google Fi is a T-Mobile MVNO at this point or not. Though to be fair, if I was to get that device, I would be putting LineageOS on it because I honestly hate EOS with their iOS-like design and the fact that it has the Micro-G services on it.

From what I understand, yes it will. Fi is a T-Mobile MVNO and they explicitly say they run on all T-Mobile MVNOs

So far I haven't had any issues, I'll let their specs speak more for me: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/08/07/lets-talk-fairphone-gen-6-cameras/

I'll say as an average photo taker mostly taking photos on vacations, it's been a solid camera. Never felt that the resolution or quality is bad. Maybe you'd notice if you really really cared and wanted to come from iPhone? This question is tricky for me because it's subjective. For me, I'm happy with it.

Are you able yo use banking apps?

How about websites do they all pretty much work?

I'm mostly in the States, but i travel to Asia, will it work there? I'm on fi.

This unfortunately I can't answer as I haven't traveled since I got it, but if fi works I would assume it would still work there. From what I understand that's more about the antenna in the phone and the coverage, and the antenna works with the standard T-Mobile network

I have mint. The fairphone 4 works with it. I would expect 6 would be fine.

Have you found an alternative use for the Fairphone Moments switch? Did /e/OS include anything to set that up?

hows the Banking apps though?

most banks block unsupported OS's

This was a big worry for me switching over. I can say that I've set up 3 separate (large) banks and all three have functioned without a hitch. I think microG is doing a lot of lifting, it basically manages that attestation

Nothing too exciting, it's a killswitch which disables mic and camera

Ok. I had some weird feeling like the us version of the phone won't work overseas