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Fairphone 5 Released (shop.fairphone.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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With 5 years of OS support and 8 years of security update.

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[–] 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

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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).

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