Fairphone 3 announced

Would you buy a Sailfish X license, if one becomes available for Fairphone 3?

Yes. I would do that for every decent and recent phone officially supported. But Fairphone especially.

I have a Xperia X now, and although I'm happy with how the device and OS works, it's battery becomes worse every week, and I have the issue that the USB port doesn't hold/grip USB cables anymore, so they fall out easily.

If i'm looking at the number of webshops offering the Xperia XA2, it's decreasing every day. The XA2 Plus and the Ultra are already sold out/gone. I know that there is some work done on supporting the Xperia 10, but as said earlier, the Fairphone and Sailfish is a great match especially because the target audience has a lot similarities.

You can try to clean the USB port. I had the same problem. Much fuzz was at the bottom of the port. After I removed it, the cables did hold again. You can e.g. use a toothpick, but be careful.

ok let me put it that way, if there is an official port, I would buy an PF3 phone and a SFOS licence for it. the alternative we have at the moment is xperia variants.

Same as pmelas: I am ready to put down my Xperia X and switch to a FP3 asap, buying a now SFOS license for it.

To get official support Fairphone has to pay for it. Which i doubt they will. Anyway. The phone is too big for me to care.

Yes indeed it's very big, that would be the greatest issue for me too. For the official support, I think if they both (Jolla and FP) see much interest, they could retake talks, there were talks three years ago, why not trying today?

It's worth mentioning the press conference, timing 45:50 https://youtu.be/hX_47ee5vBo?t=2750

A Sailfish X for Fairphone 3 should be possible. ...sold in the Jolla Store.

judging on FP2 SF status, I wouldn't buy it. Will wait for Xperia 10 official port.

then vote here

ok done ;)

portabiliy of SFOS

Well, basically all Fairphones have an unlockable bootloader that can run also opensource versions of android (AOSP) perfectly well and they even provide that themselves (their alternative Fairphone Open Source OS).

Sailfish OS relies on libhybris to make hardware adaptation (what officials from Jolla call Baseports). They have currently Baseport 8 (as used by Xperia XA2), perhaps even a baseport 9 in the work (depending on the upcoming devices in their pipeline). And the kernel and drivers on Fairphone 3 are very likely to be compatible with AOSP8 and thus with Jolla's baseport 8.

i.e.: it's probably "only" going to be about porting baseport 8 to the kernel and drivers of FP3. It's not trivial, but well within the capabilities of the community, specially given that we won't need to fight against a manufacturer actively trying to prevent after-market ROMs.

The main question is will Jolla this time manage to have an arrangement with Fairphone to have a Sailfish X for FP3, like they do for Xperias, Geminis and other upcoming devices ? That would help getting the extra bits like the Aliendalvik's LXC and customer support on Zendesk. (At the time of the FP2, Jolla wasn't selling ports themselves, and Fairphone being a small startup couldn't manage to organize paid support).

@DrYak I'd agree that both potential partners (Fairphone BV and Jolla oy) are in a better position today than back with the Fairphone 2:

• Jolla has gained experience with selling Sailfish X
• Fairphone is launching a new product and the "risk" of supporting Sailfish is probably easier to calculate

Personally, I'd be equally happy with a community port (if I were to own such a phone).

Are the drivers open source? or Blobs? Edit: Apparently Blobs : https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fp-osos/

Jolla, with the FP2 there was a really god port. I hope there will be a good port with official port this time! This would make me buy a FP3.

I bought a FP2 with the idea that there will be an official port. I hope this time it will be.

I agree with BonoNL, I was seriously considering FP2 as my escape vehicle from iPhone. I like the idea of fair hardware very much, but still no fan of the Android UX. So I wound up with the original Sailfish X. But FP3 with official Sailfish OS would be perfect as an upgrade, and I'd gladly pay for a new license - I still need that handful of Android apps, and I guess most consumer type users like me feel the same.

https://www.fairphone.com/en/2019/08/27/launching-fairphone-3/

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/can-fairphone-3-scale-ethical-consumer-electronics/

Discussion about open/alternative operating systems for fp3: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp3-fairphone-open-os/52301/26