Peace be with you guys ๐น
This is my first Fairphone with /e/OS and I'm really excited๐. It arrived within 3โ4 days even though the estimated time was 2โ3 weeks. That suprised me, because I live in Germany.
Everything came intact: headphones, screen protector, and phone case. They also included this little pin to get into the SIM tray slot, which I thought was great. There was no charger in the box but that's intentional on their part. Doesn't matter to me since all modern chargers work anyway.
It's really easy to use and murena has its own browser. The default search engine is Qwant, which I don't use because of Bing. But honestly, my main goal was F-Droid and using apps that reportedly won't work on Google-certified devices starting in September. I've already downloaded my own apps like IronFox and I'm happy ๐.
Now I'd love to hear your opinion: I think Google has shot itself in the foot with this decision. By closing down Android further, more people will switch to de-Googled systems.
That's my take, what do you think?๐ค
You can (although probably the typical buyer of a deGoogled phone wouldn't). There's a lot of open source of more privacy respectful maps/navigation apps available and a Murena Maps is on beta now.
Well, yes, but they specifically require family location sharing. There isn't any privacy respecting service I know that does that, safe for some self-hosted ones (which might not be easy to set up for the average user).
I don't know about Murena Maps (because it's not yet ready for a daily use) but neither CoMaps / Organic Maps / OsmAnd nor the preinstalled Magic Earth seem to require family location sharing. I agree that having a complete selfhosted setup may be requiring too much from the average user. The OSM based solutions are a good compromise to me, aren't they?
They, as in the user, require that feature.
Oh ok, now I understand better!