5 Pages Tagged “Fairphone”

Reviews

A Month With /e/OS ★★★★☆ A fork of the open-source parts of Android, with the Google parts left out and new apps and services to take their places. More user-friendly than LineageOS (which it’s based on). Handles paid apps, but not Google-based in-app purchases.
A Month With the Fairphone 4 ★★★⯪☆ Clunkier than most phones, but you can buy spare parts and repair it yourself. Decent hardware, if a tad slow by today’s standards (it shipped in 2021). Runs Android, LineageOS or /e/OS.

Sleep Study (no Android, no Electric Sheep)
I finally went in for a sleep study. These days they start with a night of at-home monitoring. Not only is it simpler, but you’re sleeping somewhere familiar, so the results are going to be more representative. This place at least uses a medical-grade monitoring ring and a phone app to collect and report the […]
(Sep 2026)
Grumbling about Planned Obsolescence
Sure, I like electronic gadgets. But I dislike planned obsolescence more.
(Aug 2026)
First the Migraine, Then the Headache
My phone’s turning into a spicy pillow. I have a spare, but because it had already been used on this network, it took two hours and three levels of escalation to put it *back* on the network.
(Aug 2026)