Review: Fairphone 4 with /e/OS privacy operating system

Allan Tépper
1 min readFeb 23, 2024

Learn the many reasons why the modular Fairphone 4 hardware with /e/OS is the best privacy-oriented smartphone system I have ever tested to date and the few requests I made.

In this targeted review, I will cover everything that makes the modular Fairphone 4 with /e/OS my favorite mobile hardware and software to date. This review will also cover the very few things I would like to see improved in each. First, I will cover a few of the rare features & benefits of the Fairphone 4 hardware compared with most other smartphones in 2024. Later, I will clarify why — under very specific circumstances — I classify /e/OS as the «Goldilocks» solution among the three de-Googled Android privacy-oriented operating systems I have tested to date, from the perspective of security, privacy and practicality. This article also includes the two relevant sidebars: The role of smartphone cameras in 2024, from the perspective of a video professional and the other one: The need for both unlockable and relockable bootloaders when considering privacy-oriented operating systems.

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Allan Tépper

Author, consultant, pro audio/video specialist, tech journalist, broadcaster, translator & language activist. AllanTepper.com — en castellano en AllanTépper.soy