Fairphone 6 lands in the US via Murena for $899 but there's a caveat

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Fairphone 6 has just released! If you’re based in the US, the only way you can get is with Murena’s e/OS/, a significant markup, and limited support among some network carriers.

I don’t usually pay attention to Murena’s website, but I stumbled across this as well:

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You can also get the Nothing CMF phone as well? All without supporting the Pixel 9 series at all.

Murena appears to be focused on installing e/OS/ on these two phones rather than competing with Calyx and GOS entirely.

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Good:

  • Proper smartphone ARM v9 SoC (Qualcomm Snapdragon SM7635), not some cheap IoT chip like with the Fairphone 5

Bad:

  • Still no secure element
  • No MTE
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Gonna be the same awful track record of 1-3 month delay in updates on stock too.

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Do you know how big update delays are for Samsung, Xiaomi or other vendor’s stock OS?

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@sha123
no idea, they have too many models to pay attention to

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I really wish grapheneos supported fairphone. It also looks like these are specific to tmobile network, which isnt great where I live.

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MTE?

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second guessing my FP6 purchase right now :thinking: :rofl:

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ARM Memory Tagging Extension. It’s an important security mitigation for some classes of memory safety bugs.

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