Fairphone is not cool:
- Fairphone consistently behind updates:
- FP Security Updates need to be more frequent - The Products - Fairphone Community Forum
- From what I understand each devices is actually maintained by a different ODM, which is why FP3 is sometimes more updated than FP4.
- Suspicious apps being installed automatically: Weird chinese "friDay" Apps on Fairphone 4 - Fairphone 4 - Fairphone Community Forum
- “Support” periods: Is Fairphone really interested in sustainability? - #2 by SkewedZeppelin - The Products - Fairphone Community Forum
- Misleading camera marketing:
- No Qualcomm secure boot on FP3: https://forum.fairphone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/b/9b6fee6021b919e855b5258f76de9738d5b04995.jpeg
- Verified boot trusting test-keys on FP3/FP4: Bootloader // AVB keys used in ROMs for Fairphone 3+4 - #11 by SkewedZeppelin - The Products - Fairphone Community Forum
- Removing the headphone jack
- Requiring Internet and a token to unlock the bootloader
- The ‘Keep Club’ which incentivizes users to fork over personal information and shill FP on social media in exchange for coupon codes: Keep club - Fairphone web, how to enter? - #5 by AndreasChris - Discuss - Fairphone Community Forum
- Their partnership with Murena, which is actively harming users with their egregiously poor security handling such as the WebView not updated since December of 2022: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt
- And lastly, Fairphone Easy which imo is a predatory (loan) phone rental program.
