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Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative (eurotechguide.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43965516

It is worth noting that both the hardware and software of Fairphone is heavily dependent on a Chinese company T2Mobile.

For those looking to avoid both US and Chinese companies, then the Jolla phone is the way to go.

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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

SailfishOS userland is proprietary software

I don't see it really as a downside compared to Android, since no OEM is running clean AOSP.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t see it really as a downside compared to Android, since no OEM is running clean AOSP.

This article is about Fairphone with /e/OS, not some other OEM with a proprietary Android variant.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then you are off-topic as well.
/e/OS is based on LineageOS. AOSP alone has very little "userland" still actively maintained.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Then you are off-topic as well.

No. Pelespirit asked about Jolla which is mentioned in the ~~article~~ posts's text body. I gave context for Jolla's Android compatibility. It's 100% on topic.

/e/OS is based on LineageOS.

And: "The Android compatibility layer of SailfishOS is based on AOSP, so the stack to get the most important 3rd party apps working relies as much on AOSP as any Android ROM."