A Fairphone with e/OS/ on it.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
120 points (98.4% liked)
Buy European
8525 readers
574 users here now
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
-
Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
-
Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:
-
Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
-
No russian suggestions.
Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:
- No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
- No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
- No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
- Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
- Do not spam or abuse network features.
- Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
- No generative AI content.
Useful Websites
-
General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
-
Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
-
Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
-
Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
-
๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
-
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
-
Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
-
๐จ๐ฟCzech Republic https://lemmings.world/
-
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
-
๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
-
๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
-
๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
-
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
-
๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
-
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
-
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
-
๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
-
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
-
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
-
๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
-
๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
-
๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
-
๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
-
๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
-
๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
-
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
-
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
-
๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
-
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
-
๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
-
๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
-
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
-
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
-
๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
-
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
Related Communities:
Buy Local:
Continents:
European:
Buying and Selling:
Boycott:
Countries:
Companies:
Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Preferably directly from the company Murena, as they develop /e/OS. Don't have to sideload and lock the bootloader or do anything, and devs gotta eat!
That's what I went with. It satisfies all three for me better than any other option on the market.
How long have you had it and how do you like it? Any major annoyances / limitations?
1.5 months. It's a worse flagship and it's roughly priced accordingly. No major limitations or pains, although because of the privacy stuff knocking out google programs by default I've had to troubleshoot an app or two to get the onboard settings right.
I'd recommend it to just about anyone except for maybe a grandma. Phones are largely set it and forget it though in my experience so even then it's a bit of getting every app loaded and set up and then never worrying about it again.
For instance lieferando I haven't gotten working but nearly every other app was pretty simple.
Rad, I'm sold whenever this thing becomes unusable. I'm on the lighter end of phone use so it sounds like I would lose absolutely nothing.
What do you use for maps?
I use Google maps and Maps which is based on Freemaps if I'm not mistaken. Google's directions are just miles faster and better than Maps provides but I want to start writing reviews in both and contributing.
Cheers, thank you!
Too bad they went for the iOS look-and-feel ๐ซค
You could install another launcher?
Of course I could. But iOS look-and-feel on an Android phone by default feels like a weird play.
I just changed to launcher to Kvaerisito. There's like so many options to install
For those categories, it's gotta be Fairphone. Definitely wins in the ethics and repairability categories, and with /e/ I think it would be a decent contender in the privacy bracket.
A second hand Pixel with GrapheneOS might also be a contender. I think buying second hand is a decent ethical choice and GrapheneOS is probably as good as it gets for privacy. Not very repairable though.
It's a bummer that /e/ does not support the fairphone moments feature
Buy a Fairphone from Murena, the company behind /e/OS. That way you buy a mostly fair produced phone thats ethical. It's the most repairable there is and /e/OS is a deGoogled custom rom with many privacy features on top.
Fairphone /e/OS version hits all three
I agree, the only (big) problem is that many bank apps don't work there.
Mine do, and every single bank app I've ever used works there as well. Admittedly that's three, but like 2 big and 1 small makes these claims feel antiquated.
Jolla from Finland.
and given the CLOUD Act...
I bought my pixel from a local store. Please elaborate about the cloud act
Basically, the CLOUD act states that if a tech corporation has main residency in the US, it needs to provide a backdoor for espionage services, no matter even if data's stored elsewhere.
Ill need to read into that, but AFAIK it refers to their cloud Servers, not the actual phones
If it lands in there, it has a shit camera! Which sucks
Nah.
The 'Fair' in Fairphone relates to their practice to produce the phone as fairtrade as they can. Mind, it is not perfect and I believe they don't state that it is fully fairtrade either. This often gets confused that it is fair of them to make it repairable.
I remember when Fairphone firat came out, they talked a bit about their work. Their conclusion was that it was simply not possible to create a phone that had all parts from ethical sources, so picked some specific things to focus on that were high impact and achievable at scale.
It's likely the most ethical phone you can buy, but that is mostly due to how bad most phones are.
Yes, I think it is nearly phrased the same in the link somewhere. I guess they also have to consider that it doesn't get much more expensive than it currently is. If I remember correctly they also want to be an example for other brands, and lead the way for other brands to choose more ethical materials.
This is true, I would say it is currently the most ethical smartphone you can buy today, though. If you get it with e.os installed it is also more privacy focussed as well but as a heads up e.os doesn't work with some banking apps.
You can install postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, /e/OS and the like on the Fairphone so no Google shit unless you want it.
Fairphone even sells the gen 6 with the option to have /e/OS pre-installed.
They also did with Fairphone 4 and 5
PostmarketOS on Fairphone is afaik FAR from ready for daily driver status. 100% for UBPorts Ubuntu Touch (on gen5 or gen4) though. Also iodรฉOS in addition to /e/.
Yes it is. Tried it on the 5, doesn't have speaker drivers, makes it fairly unusable. Alarm clocks, for example, are almost useless if they only work with your headphones.
Fairphone
Fairphone.
view more: next โบ