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.
That doesn’t surprise me. I have an android based MP3 player that is just an old stripped down version of android with a battery size half that of my phone and it lasts 4x as long because it isn’t running nearly as much bullshit.
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.
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.
That doesn’t surprise me. I have an android based MP3 player that is just an old stripped down version of android with a battery size half that of my phone and it lasts 4x as long because it isn’t running nearly as much bullshit.
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.