In addition to Fairphone and Shiftphone, there is also Volla Phone.
Their self description: “Volla Systeme is an independent, German manufacturer of smartphones, optionally with its own Android operating system Volla OS or the mobile Linux distribution Ubuntu Touch. Volla OS is characterized by uncompromising data protection and a uniquely intelligent operating concept.”
Probably Fairphone (from the Netherlands) and Shiftphone (from Germany), but that surely depends on how you define production.
Fairphone is great. I really can recommend it. It is a bit expensive at first and the specs are not something special, but mine seems to be almost indestructible. I dropped it like a 100 times and the screen is still fine. If it ever breaks I can replace it myself cheaply. I think in the long term, this makes it a lot better than many other phones. Also, a lot of the materials were sourced responsibly.
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Why would you reject updates?
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Not directed at you, just as a reference for anyone stumbling over this post: Don’t reject security updates. There is no reason and it leaves vulnerabilities unpatched. You risk a lot and gain nothing. Patch regularly.
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The thing is that nearly every IT professional will tell you to always do security updates.This is not a situation where there are different opinions, it’s just a fact.
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Had a great time with bq - i’m actually typing this on my Aquaris X with lineage OS! Had the Aquaris X5 before that, it had some battery issue and I got the newer X under warranty. It’s a shame they went bankrupt, their customer service & communication was excellent.
Fairphone. I’ve yet to try one myself, but I’ve seen a lot of good reviews
I only know one person in real life with a fp4 after 2.5 years or so.
She says it absolutely sucks, takes forever to load anything on mobile internet (apparently the antennas are horrible or something), android auto barely works, and she says it will probably end up being her least-long lasting phone because it is just becoming more unusable by the month.
I was ready to buy into a fp5 to replace my sony 5ii (partly because on the MKBHD picture test it scored just under the pixels for me personally and it actually has an SD card slot unlike pixels) until I heard that review. Especially because I use android auto regularly.
Then also on reddit, where people ask about fairphone experiences and it is not just advertisements like on Lemmy, every detailed review says it is software bugs galore and mediocre hardware. Allegedly fair phone developers don’t develop on fairphones so bugs are rarely noticed and take extremely long time to fix. Also I hear updates are extremely slow and late.
Again, I haven’t used one myself, but when reviews are in one of two categories:
- extremely vague “great phone no issues”
- Very detailed review of how buggy and slow to update or fix bugs it it is
I tend to believe the much more detailed review as I got burned on the HMD Nokia 7.1 that was the biggest piece of garbage I have ever used.
There is also Gigaset who claim that their smartphones are “Made in Germany” but I am not entirely sure to what exactly this covers.
Based on the specs, seems it’s only assembled in Germany with exception of a few parts like the battery.
It also seems to use standard Android with Google Play though.
If it does, then Fairphone would be a better option, or a phone offering from Murena perhaps too since that comes with /e/os
Gigaset is manufacturing in Germany afaik, but it is a Chinese-owned company. The phone runs on Android or Ubuntu Touch.
You may consider to buy a Gigaset pre-installed with UT or VollaOS (an Android-compatible OS by Volla Phone) at https://volla.online/ (Volla uses Gigaset phones).
