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Tl; DR
- The team behind the grapheneos platform criticized the Fairphone Gen 6 for apparent security problems.
- The team added that the fairphone model sold in the United States lacks confidentiality protection and “naked”.
- Even standard Fairphone Gen 6 has been criticized for delayed software fixes and the absence of a secure item.
Update, July 18, 2025 (14:40 pm HE): We have just resumed news from Fairphone in response to our survey. In a press release, the company explains:
Fairphone and Murena have a solid and proud partnership that offers many users around the world a secure, durable and modular smartphone alternative – clearly emphasizing longevity and sustainable value. We are committed to providing operating systems that meet standard security expectations. Although we respect that there are different approaches to mobile security, ours is rooted in recognized standards as recommended Android Enterprise (AER) and making the industry advance by increasing the longevity bar.
Original article, July 18, 2025 (04:36 am he): The Fairphone Gen 6 is one of the best Android phones to get if you want a reparable and durable smartphone experience. The device also arrives in the United States with Google-Free / E / OS software instead of the conventional Android operating system. However, it seems that you should think twice before getting this variant if you care about security.
The team behind the Android Grave-based Grave Platform has made it Reculations extremely concerning About the Fairphone Gen 6 Running / E / OS.
Is the US Fairphone Gen 6 a safety nightmare?
Fairphone Gen 6 devices in progress / E / OS are apparently “far behind” the open source Android project in terms of operating system and browser. In addition, the team alleges that / E / OS “deactivates or paralyzes” important confidentiality and security protections.
Unfortunately, the standard Fairphone Gen 6 was not immune to criticism either:
Fairphone 6 does not follow the standard confidentiality / Android safety / security fixes and has no secure item to provide working disk encryption for typical users not using a strong password, among other defects.
“The absence of a secure element limit for the encryption of the disc means that users with a typical 6 to 8 -digit spindle or a basic password will not see their protected data against extraction,” said the team. “The raw forcing forcing the pin or the password defined by the vast majority of users is trivial without secure element.”
How does it compare to other phones? The team noted that pixel phones and iPhones have a “high -quality” secure element while recent Samsung phones have a “basic” secure element.
However, grapheneos developers alleged that / E / OS was worse than the standard Fairphone Gen 6 software because it “deceives” users. More specifically, the team said that / E / OS modifies the user interface for the level of the security fix to “hide” which is really provided. The alternative bone fairphone also has a level of “inaccurate” security correction because it ignores certain parts of the security fixes.
In addition, / E / OS would have “major problems” to provide browser updates. This is an important problem because many default applications by default in the webview, which effectively uses the system web browser. Finally, the developers claim that / E / OS has its own “invasive” services and still uses various Google services despite the easy complaints.
We contacted Fairphone and Murena (the company behind / E / OS) to comment on these claims. We will update the article as soon as companies we come back.
