[ChuckNorris89]

Good phone cameras rely on a bunch of proprietary blobs for the sensor color science which are considered trade secrets and kept close to the chest when licensed for $$$.

Fairphone could invest in rolling their own open color science but I doubt they have the money to do it and come anywhere near what Apple or the other big Android makers are doing.

Looks like if you want open devices running FOSS you'll have to live with shit camera quality, for now.

[yankput]

Fairphone is not FOSS though… I don’t think their angle is “we are FOSS”, they are open to proprietary blobs as long as the hardware is ethically sourced. (From what I get, their definition of “ethical” doesn’t include FOSS.)

[verall]

Sensor vendors will work with you to give you their blobs if you aren't idealogically required to distribute their source code. The SoC they are using should have a few blessed sensors which work pretty well out of the box.

Unless Qualcomm is totally out to lunch. I dunno I haven't worked with their SoCs personally.