I’ve been using a Shiftphone 8 (after upgrading from a Shiftmq 6) with the degoogled ShiftOS-L. It does the job. The removable battery is really nice since I can carry around a spare battery and quickly swap if needed. However, it is made by a small company, so updates are quite sparse. I’d like to switch to iodéOS once it gets out of beta.
Own FP5 with CalyxOS installed. I like this setup, only battery life is not very good (not sure how it goes on official Android). BatteryGuru sais 10%/h with screen active and around 1,2 %/h idling
I have had a Fairphine 6 running e/os for several months now, and I could not be happier.
Fully de googled, but all apps I’ve needed run perfectly fine. Also I get around 40 hours of battery, so I charge the phone only every other day for about an hour.
I can confirm this. I have gone longer than that I think. I noticed my battery still at 97% when I plugged to charger before bed recently. It’s amazing.
It’s not quite degoogled. MicroG makes calls home to Google. Deactivate device registration and Cloud notifications in Micro G settings if you want to stop calls home but keep Google apps. Otherwise mtalk.google.com is making queries.
I basically just used Shizuku and Canta to remove the MicroG settings. I’ll just bank on a different machine that sits at my house constantly. F google.
Also, the article leaves out that the phone has a kill switch that defaults to kill microphone and camera. I think it is configurable but I have not tried since I like the default.
If you have one of these phones be great to hear some personal experiences.
Been using a Fairphone 6with e/OS since basically it was launched and couldn’t be happier! All my banking apps work.
I’ve been using a Shiftphone 8 (after upgrading from a Shiftmq 6) with the degoogled ShiftOS-L. It does the job. The removable battery is really nice since I can carry around a spare battery and quickly swap if needed. However, it is made by a small company, so updates are quite sparse. I’d like to switch to iodéOS once it gets out of beta.
Own FP5 with CalyxOS installed. I like this setup, only battery life is not very good (not sure how it goes on official Android). BatteryGuru sais 10%/h with screen active and around 1,2 %/h idling
Got Fairphone 5 with eos, pretty happy with it.
I have had a Fairphine 6 running e/os for several months now, and I could not be happier. Fully de googled, but all apps I’ve needed run perfectly fine. Also I get around 40 hours of battery, so I charge the phone only every other day for about an hour.
40 hours of battery?
You mean on standby?
No I mean with day to day use, watching videos, listening to podcasts, scrolling through Lemmy, messaging, etc…
I rarely call though.
I can confirm this. I have gone longer than that I think. I noticed my battery still at 97% when I plugged to charger before bed recently. It’s amazing.
It’s not quite degoogled. MicroG makes calls home to Google. Deactivate device registration and Cloud notifications in Micro G settings if you want to stop calls home but keep Google apps. Otherwise mtalk.google.com is making queries.
I basically just used Shizuku and Canta to remove the MicroG settings. I’ll just bank on a different machine that sits at my house constantly. F google.
Also, the article leaves out that the phone has a kill switch that defaults to kill microphone and camera. I think it is configurable but I have not tried since I like the default.