The Fairphone 6 with iodéOS is now shipping! - iodé
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Discover the Fairphone 6 with iodéOS: a privacy-first, sustainable smartphone built to last. Enjoy security out of the box, 7 years of updates, and ethical design—without compromising performance. Embrace a better digital future today.

You should also now be able to install iodeos on a Fairphone 6

    • RmDebArc_5@feddit.orgOP
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      2 months ago

      Never tried iodé, but from what I heard they are a bit faster with android/security updates (but not much), they don’t have their own cloud ecosystem, their system level adblocker has some features behind a paywall (custom filters mainly AFAIK) and their default apps are just existing FOSS apps (except the adblocket), not forks and all default apps can be uninstalled

  • slamphear@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Does anyone have experience with both /e/ and iodé? I’m curious to know how they compare. It looks like maybe iodé supports Android Auto, which would be cool since /e/ (which I’m currently daily driving) doesn’t. However, it also looks like iodé isn’t open-source, which is a deal-breaker for me unless there’s some good reason for it that I just don’t know.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’ve not heard of iode. does the installation procedure reolck the bootloader?

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Neat. appreciate the info. I suppose it’s somewhat similar to calyx then?

        • wellyon@lemmy.zip
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          2 months ago

          Yes, they are both privacy friendly OS with microG preinstalled to replace Google services. But they’re not based on the same project : IodéOS is based on LineageOS (like /e/OS) while Calyx uses AOSP.

          It’s not a huge difference but in my experience after switching from Calyx to Iodé, some applications wouldn’t work anymore, mainly banking apps.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Anyone know whether the Fairphone 6 supports all of the Canadian/North American wireless bands? If I can get confirmation it works with any Canadian carrier I will pay a third party to ship me one from Europe again because I’m so damn sick of having phones with sealed in batteries.

    My Fairphone 5 had to be relegated to a glorified iPod Touch because it stopped connecting to my network. And it will probably still outlast my new phone. I will get a new battery for it when the time comes, I still use it at home and it’s awesome.