I’ve been looking into potentially switching to an alternative smart phone, something like the Jolla phone with sailfish OS, the fairphone, etc. I think something like that would be excellent for what I want my smart phone to do, and I’m tired of the one I have. However from what I’ve read online, they don’t really seem to work well in the USA. I am on T mobile which seems to work better than other providers, but I was wondering if any of the fine people on Lemmy have actual experience they can share.


The latest fairphone supports all of the TMobile 4g LTE bands and n2, n41, and n71 on 5g. Mmwave is not a thing on the fairphone.
The new Jolla phone is unknown on that support. Hopefully it’s about as good as fairphone.
That said, if you buy it through Murena it should just work and be activatable like any normal Android phone. Also holy shit it’s expensive through Murena.