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Fairphone 5 Released (shop.fairphone.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

With 5 years of OS support and 8 years of security update.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you were to pick the most mature one, which would you choose?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Lineage is the oldest one (Divest and /e/ are forks of it). Calyx has a focus on security and privacy (comes with a free VPN with no signup requires). Currzntly Calyx is based on Android 13, even on the Fairphone 4 which doesn't have it supportes. I son't know enough about iodé to comment about it though.

[–] Ilandar 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CalyxOS is the most advanced of those I mentioned. They have a monthly update schedule and a larger team. My favourite is iodéOS, though, because of the iodé ad and tracker blocker app which can be used simultaneously with a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that ad and tracker blocker just browser level or are there… ads in the OS?!

[–] Ilandar 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I mean it runs system wide and can block ads and trackers from any application. There are definitely no ads in the OS lol

Normally these ad and tracker blocking apps are detected as a VPN by Android, which means you cannot use a real VPN at the same time. iode's blocker is unique in this area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago