Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

Posted by pizzaiolo 13 hours ago

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera(catcrafts.net)

212 points | 48 comments

ianso 3 hours ago|

This is awesome stuff. Fully mainstream Linux with a normal userland running on a modern handset with all features will unlock a tremendous amount of change once it's there.

Things like running a distributed database for a community on top of the devices they own, hopefully also running true mesh networking.

varun_ch 12 hours ago||

The part about getting authorized to test the emergency calling capabilities is cool! I should've expected that would be a thing but I didn't ever consider it.

NewJazz 8 hours ago|

Found the pixel modem engineer.

ThePowerOfFuet 3 hours ago||

Ouch.

iamkonstantin 6 hours ago||

Awesome! There are so many cool things we could be doing with our phones if they weren't locked to a single OS

squigz 3 hours ago|

Genuinely curious, like what cool things?

ianso 2 hours ago|||

Apologies for self-linking here, but it's not just cool things, in my opinion it could transform humanitarian aid work. I wrote a use-case/short-story about it here:

https://ianso.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-we-dont-have.html

9wQJs3wWewQk 32 minutes ago||||

like running K8s on your old phones?

spaqin 2 hours ago|||

Calling our friends, maybe? No idea; I've tried desktop Linux on phones years prior and besides maybe being a potential portable cyber security rig it was only a cool oddity.

abc123abc123 1 hour ago||

Does ubuntu touch or postmarket os work reliably on the fairphone 6 now, or is this still just components working? Is it possible to use it as a daily driver?

fsflover 1 hour ago|

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairp...

SkinTaco 4 hours ago||

What is that bit about Bedrijfsaansprakelijkheidsverzekering at the end? I've never heard of business liability insurance before. Does Germany not have an equivalent of an LLC?

hvb2 4 hours ago||

He didn't create an LLC he's a 'stichting' which is basically a non profit with a specific goal to achieve.

He doesn't want to create an LLC because he doesn't want anyone to question his motives.

Also this is the Netherlands not Germany :)

ivan_gammel 4 hours ago||

That‘s Dutch, and the same sentence mentions Netherlands. Equivalent of LLC exists everywhere, but business insurance still makes sense if you want to stay in business after paying damages.

hnisjafx40 51 minutes ago||

This aged well

megous 10 hours ago||

I see AF algo has some trouble with defocussing a perfectly sharp scene for no reason. :)

Does this HW have access to PDAF pixel data?

mistercheph 9 hours ago||

Awesome

asd000hh 6 hours ago||

wow amazing

chinagenie_ai 52 minutes ago|

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