At Fairphone, our dedication to change means a dedication to measurement. We’ve just completed the life cycle assessment on the Fairphone 3, and we’re humble-proud to present our results. As with the Fairphone 2, we turned to the independent experts at the Fraunhofer Institute IZM to examine the phone’s lifelong environmental impact – from the […]
They don’t ship outside of Europe. Not sure if it’s work in the US, sorry.
The software is open source, the hardware is using closed source Qualcomm chips AFAIK. But you can easily dismantle the phone and repair it. Not sure how it compares to other phone you listed.
The software isn’t fully open-source either. It comes with the Google Play Services preinstalled, for example. They haven’t ruled out the possibility of a Google-free version in the future and you can get LineageOS running on there, but yeah, it’s just not all sunshine and roses.
They don’t ship outside of Europe. Not sure if it’s work in the US, sorry.
The software is open source, the hardware is using closed source Qualcomm chips AFAIK. But you can easily dismantle the phone and repair it. Not sure how it compares to other phone you listed.
The software isn’t fully open-source either. It comes with the Google Play Services preinstalled, for example. They haven’t ruled out the possibility of a Google-free version in the future and you can get LineageOS running on there, but yeah, it’s just not all sunshine and roses.