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Great content, good audio and video quality! For murena OS it's definetly an android variant i'll check when my current phone die, thanks for the discrovery. And overall, that's a high quality channel you've got there! Hope your channel will lift up and get thousand upon thousand of subscribers. Cheers.

@devwithzachary

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!!

Nice review. Workaround for contactless payments is NFC band/watch. I'm daily driving /e/OS for several months now and it's a good and usable system. I'm surprised you didn't mention the default BlissLauncher tho. For me it was the biggest pain in the beginning. It tries to mimic iOS which is pretty weird. And finding a good, private and open source launcher to replace it was not an easy task.

@devwithzachary

3 ай бұрын

Good idea with the NFC watch. For the Launcher, honestly because I only really used about 10 apps day to day I didn't have much of a problem with it. But my setup was just one page of apps, so i didn't really dive deeper into it. Still very good points and worth thinking about if you use lots of apps etc!

@ferd9438

3 ай бұрын

​@@devwithzachary NFC: I bought the cheapest Xiaomi NFC band and it works surprisingly well. Even the Mi Fitness (Pay) app seems to be quite privacy respecting when you disable all the useless fancy stuff.

@ferd9438

3 ай бұрын

​@@devwithzachary Launcher: I came from stock Pixel and what I want is as clean and default Android/launcher as possible. Shouldn't be a big deal imo, just something like AOSP/Trebuchet (Trebuchet should be the LineageOS's default launcher afaik). But I didn't find a (reasonably easy) way to install Trebuchet. And the other ~15 launchers I went through are either somehow opinionated/significantly modified or unmaintained. I ended up with Neo Launcher which is acceptable but still a compromise. But I don't get why I have to go through this on the first place. I get the point of Bliss in getting closer to the people switching from iOS even tho I'm sceptical about how this can work. But missing completely a reasonable way for ppl switching from other Android is painful.

@robertoacj

16 күн бұрын

Do you have any good private launcher recommendations?

I'm over a year in with /e/OS. By way of background, I have used desktop Linux for a couple of years, but have zero experience with installing custom ROMs and actually had no experience with any kind of Android. I avoided smartphones for years, then used a succession of iPhones. I've never had a Google Play account. If developers of useful stuff (like Signal) provide a way to support them, I do that, but I don't provide a credit card to Google Play. I (generally) like using the murena cloud service, but it can be a bit frustrating. I have no plans to drop /e/OS. I would use a refurbed Pixel, I did not like the Teracube 2e.

Interesting review 👍

Update #2: Fairphone cannot read QR codes, by design

Can you use different launcher? For example I use Niagara pro, would I still be able to use that and other paid content (via google play)? Nice video btw so I'm off to check out your fairphone 4 vid.

Is this a fairohone 4 or 5 ? In need of a new phone and looking at a fairphone 4 with e/os as its more in my budget but im worried it's still a lot of money for a phone that came out 3 years ago

@devwithzachary

2 ай бұрын

This is the 4, I did a hardware review on my channel as well. You can check it out to see if the hardware is right for you!

Can i open banking app?

@devwithzachary

2 күн бұрын

Yes! my banking app worked no problem.

How to restore Whatsapp chat from Gmail?

@fritzshero

Ай бұрын

You could still sign into google over gmicro or Google itself; But then google knows you are using a ungoogled phone and the device model. So rather copy the local WA backup file to the device, should work too.

Before you told you had only 444 subscriber, i would have assumed you had a looooot more! Great content and great quality! Is sad to be the one who ruin the "666 Subsribed" number lol

@devwithzachary

Ай бұрын

Thank very much! thats a massive compliment! Its ok 666 couldn't last forever

The biggest downer for /e/os for me is it doesn't try to differentiate itself enough, and sticks to the bloated Android model. It should offer Android apps, but try to be a Linux phone firstly, offering a full Linux desktop mode when docked for example.

Update: Fairphone is not compatible with Google Chrome. WTF?

@kako8668

2 ай бұрын

😹🫵

@jonabitstream

2 ай бұрын

@@kako8668 see today's update.

@jonabitstream

2 ай бұрын

@@kako8668 see today's update

@jonabitstream

2 ай бұрын

@@kako8668 see today's update.

@webxorcist

Ай бұрын

Don't use Google Chrome, omg... Why use a phone like this and than install that malware on it?

OK, you sent me here because I told you about all the problems I’m having with this OS, and you say nothing, absolutely nothing, about the problems I’m having. Time for you to test for the problems I’m having.

@devwithzachary

2 ай бұрын

Are you using /e/OS? I mentioned my unit has /e/OS not stock android. But I've also not experienced any of the issues you are having

@jonabitstream

2 ай бұрын

@@devwithzachary yes, all Fairphones use that OS. So, your Visual Voicemail works? Google Pay works on your phone? And your Fairphone connects to your car’s Bluetooth?

@devwithzachary

2 ай бұрын

@jonabitstream no, all fairphones don't. They come with standard Android with Google services. /e/OS doesn't come with Google services so no, Google pay doesn't work for me, Bluetooth worked fine.

@jonabitstream

2 ай бұрын

@@devwithzachary so, why, when I contacted what Fairphone calls “customer service”, did they tell me the problems I am having are issues they are “working on”? Why does Google Maps work on my phone, but not Google Pay? And why don’t they have a customer service phone number? Also, when I bought the phone from Murena Fairphone, there was no option to get a legit Android OS, and. Since they’re the only US vendor, my statement that all of their phones use e/OS is true for all US consumers.

@devwithzachary

2 ай бұрын

"All Fairphones use that OS" is a very different statement to "if I buy it in the US it does". e/OS is specificly an OS designed to remove all of Google, so if you need Google services it's the wrong OS/Device for you. MicroG is used to support "some" Google apps and APIs (like as you mentioned maps.) microg.org/