This file is not publicly distributed and is available only to Fairphone’s authorized repair partner.
Yikes. I always call bullshit when there’s some “super ethical” product that has shitty specs and an insane pricetag.
Stop getting scammed, ya’ll.
Yeah not very fair if there’s no right to repair
Man, not a good look for a company who boasts about the repairability of their phones to hide key software repair tools behind an arbitrary paywall - especially when required because of their own faulty update via their official channels.
This is why I never recommend updating devices straight away. Give time for the dust to settle and major faults/vulnerabilities to be ironed out first.
This happened last year. This isn’t a new occurrence, I can’t see anything referencing anything new
except maybe the lawsuits.Edit: never mind, I just skimmed, saw lawsuits section, and checked sources, there aren’t even any lawsuits referenced in this
That’s a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left their customers hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.
It depends on their response I think. They can own up to the problem, make their products more resilient or theh can do nothing in that case the repair washing is obvious.
some users reported that devices with malfunctioning or disconnected fingerprint sensors became stuck on the boot animation and could not complete startup.
Some context. Also this happened last year.
This is the event that happened last year.
when will we get a linux based phone that is not android?
I’d like to see a free phone OS that isn’t limited to specific devices.
Technically we have one. It’s called the Google Pixel 3 XL (literally everything runs on it somehow)
librem 5? pine phone?
just dont expect either to be very performant or popular
Provably never, as it’s the chicken-and-egg app availability problem that killed Nokia and Windows phone. Everything is developed for Android, at this point if you launch a new phone OS it’s just going to sit at 0.01% marketshare of weird nerds buying it until you go bankrupt because you can’t afford to buy the hardware anymore.
Should be possible to make a compatibility layer. You can run android apps on PC now, according to constant banners on Play Store.
The biggest issue is hardware support. Mobile hardware still uses custom drivers for everything, so you wouldn’t be able to ramp up a new OS on existing hardware. You’d need to invest in making both a phone and an OS, and that’s a big risk considering only a small amount of turbo nerds will care.
Even if there was a Proton-like way to reliably emulate Android software, you’ve still got the device attestation problem that means most major banking and security apps won’t work. And hardly anyone is going to either want to give up those apps or have to carry around a separate dedicated phone just for them.
I always hear people say stuff like this but realistically how often are you guys using these banking apps on your phone when that is your only option? I don’t even have any banking apps installed because it’s just not something I ever need to look at on the go. Anything I need to do gets done on a different device when I’m at home or I go to the actual bank building (I almost never do that either).
I’m not saying there’s no functionality problems with alternative mobile OS’s but this one in particular just seems overblown to me.
how often
Huh? Frequently…? When i need to pay for food, drink, shopping, transfer money to my peers, etc.
Where I live is almost going cashless already. I don’t carry any cash with me.
luckily my banking app still works on Grapheneos now.
Are you talking about an NFC payment app like Google wallet? That’s not called a banking app in the US at least. A banking app is made by a bank and is essentially only used for checking account balances and transfers between accounts. Why can’t you use a credit card with an NFC chip in it?
In my area (southeast asia) we use “scan and pay” from our banking app. Merchants will have a qr code printed for us to scan via our banking app.
they are trying to make the banking app into something like a wechat where you can do a bunch of stuff on it.
why can’t you use a credit card with an NFC chip in it?
for tap and pay, for some reason I don’t like to take out my wallet, fiddle and try to take out the plastic and make payment.
i use it for transit and shopping. I always worry about misplacing or dropping it. Paying / tapping is often a rushed interaction that happen in crowded place. Right now I bring 2 phones with me. My android daily driver phone and an iPhone. I installed all banking / payment apps on the iPhone. Even if i dropped or misplaced my iPhone, the tap and pay feature is still protected with a lock screen, which the credit card does not.
^ also i brought the iPhone because I rooted my android phone. I got tired fighting safety net every week to get the payment apps to work
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