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DeGoogled phones, made in Europe: Fairphone, Volla, SHIFTphone, Punkt – a full review. (tuta.com)

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[-] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago

I have had a Fairphine 6 running e/os for several months now, and I could not be happier. Fully de googled, but all apps I've needed run perfectly fine. Also I get around 40 hours of battery, so I charge the phone only every other day for about an hour.

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's not quite degoogled. MicroG makes calls home to Google. Deactivate device registration and Cloud notifications in Micro G settings if you want to stop calls home but keep Google apps. Otherwise mtalk.google.com is making queries.

I basically just used Shizuku and Canta to remove the MicroG settings. I'll just bank on a different machine that sits at my house constantly. F google.

Also, the article leaves out that the phone has a kill switch that defaults to kill microphone and camera. I think it is configurable but I have not tried since I like the default.

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[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

40 hours of battery?

You mean on standby?

[-] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

No I mean with day to day use, watching videos, listening to podcasts, scrolling through Lemmy, messaging, etc...

I rarely call though.

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

I can confirm this. I have gone longer than that I think. I noticed my battery still at 97% when I plugged to charger before bed recently. It's amazing.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago

That doesn't surprise me. I have an android based MP3 player that is just an old stripped down version of android with a battery size half that of my phone and it lasts 4x as long because it isn't running nearly as much bullshit.

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