I was hesitant for a long time, but I’m not using the Murena Fairphone 6 here in the states. I see a lot of people hesitant about it, will it work for X or Y, etc. Suprisingly there are very very few things that haven’t worked for me, it’s mostly a fork of LineageOS with microG.
Still, I wanted to open a forum for folks who are ready to leave Google thanks to them killing off installing your own apps, maybe my experience will help those who are questioning if they should or not
Good and bad, but mostly good. It’s a solid phone, it does pretty much everything I could ask for. I was really nervous when I tried to activate it (I’m still on Google Fi, for now until I decide on a good carrier), and it activated without a hitch. The /e/OS App Lounge has pretty much every app, at least there aren’t any I haven’t found.
Setup was like setting up a phone back in the gingerbread days. Completely green field, figuring out what apps I liked and what I didn’t, there was definitely no guided “this is your phone”, more of a “Okay here you are, go make it your own now” vibe, like original Android.
No wallet, and I haven’t been able to get my Samsung watch to work with it, but there’s hope on the horizon there. For me, these are worth it to leave Google behind.
It doesn’t have every bell and whistle, I’d say it’s nothing fancy. It’s a solid phone. It has a good camera, battery, screen, but nothing amazing. I’d say it’s very… fair.
Are you able yo use banking apps?
How about websites do they all pretty much work?
Haven’t run into any sites that don’t work, but I did install Firefox with ublock like my last phone, and so haven’t used the built-in browser much. FF handles everything perfectly, and no ads.
Haven’t tried banking apps, I’ll download a couple tonight and try them out and report back
From my initial research for my own Samsung watch, I think you’ll probably be required to use the Samsung app to connect your watch as Samsung uses a non-standard bluetooth encryption which requires their specific app to connect correctly. I tried many times with gadgetbridge to no luck.
That’s what I’m finding too, I tried with the Samsung app but it gets stuck at "Accept T&C"s page, which microG doesn’t have implemented. There’s a bounty out for that that I’m going to be contributing for