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Fairphone Fairbuds launch with replaceable batteries, titanium drivers and ANC (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is their app open source?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Their website has a page that says they "embrace open source"

I couldn't find the source code specifically for their app. Maybe this?

https://github.com/fairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP5

Honestly have no clue what I'm looking at there. There seems to be no iOS equivalent, so who knows.

Otherwise, their app permissions seem pretty reasonable:

• discover and pair nearby Bluetooth devices
• Access Bluetooth settings
• Pair with Bluetooth devices
• connect to paired Bluetooth devices

But yeah, if no open source, that can definitely be a deal-breaker for the market they seem to be targeting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This seems like part of their android os for FP5, TWRP is a common open source android recovery image: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWRP_(software)

Probably a attempt to open source the component they can, in the release note, they list the components that are not working.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

FairPhone's is not really the open source crowd though?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

They proclaim to value open source and it seems they've tried to do some stuff in the past. I think software freedom is a natural conclusion of hardware repairability but it seems their priority is instead on being green and workers up the chain getting a fair pay.