Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

  • tabular@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Very interested in repair but I also want software freedom, and I’ve not heard anything about avoiding proprietary drivers/software.

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        10 months ago

        How do you do if you need for work to use Google products? I would love to use alternative OS, but I cannot because of my job

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          10 months ago

          Google services are not installed by default but you can install the play store and other google apps from the built in app store if you need them. The only thing I am lacking from stock is google pay because I haven’t installed any google services but I’m fine with that trade off.

          The built-in anti tracking and privacy features a very nice

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        10 months ago

        I would love to use /e/ but I couldn’t get it to install. It seemed my phone was the wrong version of the phone it was. Like a revision 1.01 kind of situation. They should also change the project name, it’ll be killing their SEO.