▲ 385 ▼ Fairphone 5 Released (shop.fairphone.com) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org 194 comments fedilink hide all child comments With 5 years of OS support and 8 years of security update. Related threads: https://lemmy.world/post/4130880 https://lemmy.world/post/4129394 https://feddit.nl/post/2555704
[–] bioemerl@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) Unfortunately it's impossible to offer support for longer than the chipset permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] M_Djallo@feddit.it 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Actually in the past they updated their software even past the support from qualcomm, rewriting by themselves what was needed to allow and old chipset to run newer android version Source permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah, well, they are just doing what custom ROM makers have been doing for a decade and a half. My old Droid 4 was also EOL after Android 4.1. Custom ROM makers pushed this up to Android 7.1 by ignoring the parts (e.g. the Kernel) that they couldn't update. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] M_Djallo@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago Sure, but the good is that this is the only company doing it. Also my Galaxy Nexus received a big kernel update from people at xda developers, but was by chance and good will of the people involved. Here they did it because they kept up the commercial promise behind the product they sell, something that basically no other company in this sector does (or they do, but with very short term promises). permalink fedilink source parent [+] acastcandream@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago The price is also higher because they use fair trade gold and whatnot. Given the mission to clean up the electronics industry it's plesently suprising it doesn't cost more permalink fedilink source parent
[–] M_Djallo@feddit.it 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Actually in the past they updated their software even past the support from qualcomm, rewriting by themselves what was needed to allow and old chipset to run newer android version Source permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah, well, they are just doing what custom ROM makers have been doing for a decade and a half. My old Droid 4 was also EOL after Android 4.1. Custom ROM makers pushed this up to Android 7.1 by ignoring the parts (e.g. the Kernel) that they couldn't update. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] M_Djallo@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago Sure, but the good is that this is the only company doing it. Also my Galaxy Nexus received a big kernel update from people at xda developers, but was by chance and good will of the people involved. Here they did it because they kept up the commercial promise behind the product they sell, something that basically no other company in this sector does (or they do, but with very short term promises). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah, well, they are just doing what custom ROM makers have been doing for a decade and a half. My old Droid 4 was also EOL after Android 4.1. Custom ROM makers pushed this up to Android 7.1 by ignoring the parts (e.g. the Kernel) that they couldn't update. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] M_Djallo@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago Sure, but the good is that this is the only company doing it. Also my Galaxy Nexus received a big kernel update from people at xda developers, but was by chance and good will of the people involved. Here they did it because they kept up the commercial promise behind the product they sell, something that basically no other company in this sector does (or they do, but with very short term promises). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] M_Djallo@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago Sure, but the good is that this is the only company doing it. Also my Galaxy Nexus received a big kernel update from people at xda developers, but was by chance and good will of the people involved. Here they did it because they kept up the commercial promise behind the product they sell, something that basically no other company in this sector does (or they do, but with very short term promises). permalink fedilink source parent
[+] acastcandream@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago The price is also higher because they use fair trade gold and whatnot. Given the mission to clean up the electronics industry it's plesently suprising it doesn't cost more permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago The price is also higher because they use fair trade gold and whatnot. Given the mission to clean up the electronics industry it's plesently suprising it doesn't cost more permalink fedilink source parent