Where can I buy Fairphone 4?
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Hello,
Seeing that the Fairphone 4 has many more features that I would like to have available than what I currently have (Pixel 3a XL), I am considering buying a Fairphone 4 for UT. Since I am in the U.S., I can't buy it from the official store. I searched for other places I could buy it from, and I am still unsure of where I can buy a Fairphone 4 that I can install UT on. Does anybody have any suggestions?
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@thedeafenguy said in Where can I buy Fairphone 4?:
many more features
Do you mean the Wired External display and SD card storage?
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@thedeafenguy You can officially get one through Murena website:
https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/
Note that they are shipped with /e/OS (based on Android 13 currently).
You might have to flash stock FairphoneOS Android 11 ROM before installing Ubuntu Touch...
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@arubislander Yes.
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@stanwood Thanks!
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@thedeafenguy
Are you sure that it handles the USA network basebands frequencies ?
And if yes, that your providers have FP4 in their whitelist ? -
@Keneda Officially (according Fairphone Company) it works on T-Mobile:
Excerpt below:
*Fairphone 4 with /e/OS will only work with T-Mobile in the US, as it is not optimized for Verizon and AT&T. This means that as long as there's T-mobile coverage, it'll work.
After the 3G network is shut down, the Fairphone 4 will continue working on the 4G network. It also supports VoLTE (Voice over LTE, a.k.a. 4G calling) and VoWi-Fi (Voice over Wi-Fi, a.k.a. Wi-Fi calling) on the T-mobile network in the US.*
However, I did travel to North America in August 2023, and my FP4 worked also perfectly well on AT&T network (4G, 5G and VoLTE). I didn't test Verizon as I remained in New Hampshire and Vermont states.
It worked also perfectly well on Rogers and Telus carriers in the nearby province of Quebec (Canada), even on 5G frequency.
Phone calls and cellular data were used without the slightest hitch.
For this travel I used /e/OS on the device. I was Roaming using my own sim card (Salt. Switzerland).So I guess, when VoLTE and 5G support will soon come in Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 4 and 5, it should work fine as well on those networks.
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@thedeafenguy I guess so, but I never used e-bay...
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You can order it from European Amazon sites (like Amazon Germany or UK) and use a mail forwarding service like Forward2Me. Some units also show up on eBay, but make sure it’s unlocked and supports U.S. network bands if you plan to use it here.
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Old post, I know, but if @thedeafenguy or anybody else has bought from that seller, a report might be useful to many of us outside the EU. I've come across that seller before and wondered.
