In hindsight, I should’ve added a few more…
Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.
Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers’ rights and supply chain. Preferably European.
Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.
I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it’s a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it’d be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS… but it’s Google, and given the CLOUD Act…
Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it’s Apple), but that’s a separate category.
You can install postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, /e/OS and the like on the Fairphone so no Google shit unless you want it.
Fairphone even sells the gen 6 with the option to have /e/OS pre-installed.
They also did with Fairphone 4 and 5
PostmarketOS on Fairphone is afaik FAR from ready for daily driver status. 100% for UBPorts Ubuntu Touch (on gen5 or gen4) though. Also iodéOS in addition to /e/.
Yes it is. Tried it on the 5, doesn’t have speaker drivers, makes it fairly unusable. Alarm clocks, for example, are almost useless if they only work with your headphones.