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18 Aug 2026, 6:01 AM	Hacker News	4.5	Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera A community developer wrote a working main camera driver for the Fairphone 6 running PostmarketOS, including auto focus and color correction, building on prior work by another contributor on the wide lens. The image quality is still grainy compared to a Galaxy A16, and emergency calling verification is being tested with Dutch 112 authorities on August 18. Why: This is a concrete progress marker for anyone interested in Linux phones as a viable daily driver: the Fairphone 6 camera stack is being upstreamed by community contributors, and emergency calling is being formally tested with authorities. If you're evaluating PostmarketOS for hardware longevity or privacy, the camera gap is closing but still far behind commodity Android. linux-phones postmarketos fairphone kernel-drivers open-source

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18 Aug 2026, 6:01 AM

Hacker News

4.5

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

A community developer wrote a working main camera driver for the Fairphone 6 running PostmarketOS, including auto focus and color correction, building on prior work by another contributor on the wide lens. The image quality is still grainy compared to a Galaxy A16, and emergency calling verification is being tested with Dutch 112 authorities on August 18.

Why: This is a concrete progress marker for anyone interested in Linux phones as a viable daily driver: the Fairphone 6 camera stack is being upstreamed by community contributors, and emergency calling is being formally tested with authorities. If you're evaluating PostmarketOS for hardware longevity or privacy, the camera gap is closing but still far behind commodity Android.