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Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, sustainable smartphone

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Fairphone and e Foundation are teaming up and taking the rare step of selling a non-Google Android phone to the public. The Fairphone 3, a midrange smartphone originally released in September 2019, can now come pre-loaded with the /e/ OS, a fork of Android that replaces the usual suite of Google apps and services with open source options and /e/'s cloud services. The goal of the two companies is to produce a "privacy conscious and sustainable phone." (It's "/e/ OS" but, for some reason, only "e Foundation.")

The Fairphone 3 was originally released in August 2019 for €450 ($493). If you buy the pre-loaded /e/ version from /e/'s website, the phone is €480 ($525). The Fairphone 3 build of /e/ is freely available no matter where you buy the phone, but if you buy it from /e/, you're presumably financially supporting your phone's OS development.

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Fairphone 3 smartphone offers choice of open-source /e/

  • Fairphone 3 smartphone offers choice of open-source /e/ operating system

    Handset maker Fairphone has teamed up with /e/, an open-source operating system focused on the respect of data privacy, to offer European customers a version of the Fairphone 3 smartphone without Google’s online services. Existing Fairphone 3 owners will be able to download the /e/ OS and replace the standard Android edition, by visiting a dedicated page on the /e/ website. For new owners, a version of the handset featuring the /e/ OS will become available across Europe from 06 May for EUR 479.90.

    Founded by French entrepreneur Gael Duval, /e/ described itself as an ‘unGoogled’ Android-based OS. Its ambition is to offer the choice of running many favourite Android apps without users having their data collected or their GPS location tracked. Alongside the Fairphone 3, the /e/ website is currently selling refurbished Samsung Galaxy smartphones (S9 Plus, S9, S8, S7, and S7 Edge), already ‘deGoogled’ with the /e/ OS.

The Fairphone ethical smartphone is now available

  • The Fairphone ethical smartphone is now available with the Google-less Android /e/OS operating system

    Almost all smartphones lock you into expensive, pretty prisons. They look great, but you can't repair them, and they watch your every move. But now there's the Fairphone 3, which lets you fix the hardware yourself, paired up with the privacy-first Android /e/OS operating system.

    Besides being repairable by any handy person, the Fairphone uses ethically sourced materials and is built by well-paid workers, Many smartphones, such as the Apple iPhone, are built by poorly paid temporary workers.

Good News! You Can Now Buy the De-Googled /e/OS Smartphone

  • Good News! You Can Now Buy the De-Googled /e/OS Smartphone from Fairphone

    Fairphone is known for its ethical (or fair) approach of making a smartphone.

    Normally, the ethical approach involves that the workers get paid well, the smartphone build materials are safer for the planet, and the phone is durable/sustainable. And, they’ve already done a good job with their Fairphone 1 , Fairphone 2, and Fairphone 3 smartphones.

    Now, to take things up a notch, Fairphone has teamed up with /e/OS which is a de-googled Android fork, to launch a separate edition of Fairphone 3 (its latest smartphone) that comes with /e/OS out of the box.

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