Best way to support Porting / Checking Status for the Fairphone 5
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@Lakotaubp Thanks for the fast answer! Will do!
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Hello,
does anyone know if there are news for the fairphone 5 port of ubports ?
Thank you in advance for the great work
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@BlueKenny IIRC, Marius mentioned it in the last Q&A. If there's an installable and working version, I'm sure we'll know it without asking
I'm also excited for this and I'm sure it'll be my next phone
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@kugiigi already got mine, looks promising for PostmarketOS as well. Maybe I'll get back into Ubports if it works well.
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I just checked my E-Mails and found a Uboports Newsletter from February with the following Text:
*Fosdem 2024
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Devices on display included a Bq Aquaris 5HD, just to show how far we have come then a OP5, PInePhone, PinePhonePro with keyboard case, PineTab and PineTab2, Volla Phone, Volla X, Volla 22, Volla X23, Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5.
Yes you did read that right the Fairphone 5 was at FOSDEM, and it was running 20.04. Not unsurprisingly it got a lot of attention as you would expect. The port was only finished the day before by Nikita from initial work started by Marius.
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Very excited! Is there a timeframe in which we can expect a release?
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@CatWithUT good find ! And where do I sign up to these newsletters?
I'm very eager to hear further news on this too!
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@Kamikaze You could send a mail to socials(at)ubports(dot)com and ask to be added to the mailing list.
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@Kamikaze Very bottom of this page https://ubports.com/
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@Lakotaubp Ah, there it is. I was looking for that, but couldn't find it.
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Thanks, I've signed up! Now just have to be patient for any news on FP5
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Small update about Linux on Fairphone 5:
I saw that the UBports installer already supports the Fairphone 5! It offers postmarketOS devbuilds, for those who want to try postmarketOSCOOL!
Current state of the port:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5) -
Wow! Latest ubports newsletter has a hint that VoLTE and 5G may be coming to FP5:
"...by way of a sort of happy accident 5g should be available first, and has been tested on FP5 and 4..."
Looking good!