I am looking for my next smart phone.
It seems like I will choose between a Fairphone 6 or Nothing 3 (or any other phone) How do these phones compare?
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Ultimately, any phone that depends on Google code is not free or European.
Fairphone works better than most with alternatives. PostmarketOS runs pretty well on Fairphone 5, for those who really want to be completely free of Google. Personally I’m happy with /e/OS for now.
I have great experiences with Fairphone, have every intention to stick with them for years to come. I’m on the FP5 now, but FP6 looks like an upgrade, and I have heard nothing bad about it.
IMO: I would wait until GrapheneOS comes out on the new OEMs hardware, which they said is happening 2026 Q4. Personally GrapheneOS is the only OS I would use, as it gets rid of everything from Google.
I get your point but It’s the wrong sub. You do understand that this sub is more about buying/using European designed/made things, services rather than just avoiding US GAFAMS products.
Both are midrange. If you’re basing your desicion on a cause (which seems to be the case as you’re posting here) the sustainability aspects of Fairphone (both environmental and social) should make it a clear winner for you. It also has official /e/os/ support (European de-googled Android) if you ever decide to go down that path in the future.
We need to have a pinned post about nothing on this community.
Nothing is a Chinese company with American investors, using the UK marketing office as a tax haven, there is nothing European about it.
All of the electronics are designed and produced in China, all of the firmware is designed and written in China, most or all of the software is written in China. All of the electronics & technical job postings from then since inception have been for their Chinese office. (Disclaimer, the past year they had 1-2 software engineering jobs posted at their london office, so maybe sometime in the future, they will start writing a bit of the software in europe)
All of their smart watches and their whole CMF line is ODM’ed (white labeled) by fully Chinese companies, that is why they are all completely generic dime-a-dozen base designs.
Their CEO has had a history of misleading and/or lying with his other Chinese company he started, and has worked in the Chinese smartphone industry for 15 years in China. Sure he grew up in Sweden, but that is literally the only EU-related affiliation the company has, and he didn’t put the headquarters marketing office in Sweden because he is dodging taxation.
I’d pick the Fairphone for sure. It’s not perfect but it’s a tremendous step in the right direction.
Clearly go for Fairphone. Nothing is nothing but European marketing.
Nothing is better than Fairphone.
Ok fine, I’m already leaving.
