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Which only means it will be stuck on Marshmallow, not Lollipop -- until Fairphone releases a core module with another chipset on it (https://shop.fairphone.com/
by pronik 10y ago
Which only means it will be stuck on Marshmallow, not Lollipop -- until Fairphone releases a core module with another chipset on it (https://shop.fairphone.com/spareparts/coremodulefp2.html https://shop.fairphone.com/spareparts/coremodulefp2.html). At least that is the promise. Might even use something from Mediatek which will probably drive the price down.
- voltagex_ 10y agoI hope they do go for a cheaper SoC - that core module is more expensive than the entire phone that's in my pocket alone. I get that the price reflects ethically sourced materials, but they're gonna have to do something about the price. I wonder how they'll handle software and retaining data through a cross-platform upgrade - a build for Android for the msm8xxx series won't run on a Mediatek SoC.
- Nullabillity 10y ago> I wonder how they'll handle software and retaining data through a cross-platform upgrade - a build for Android for the msm8xxx series won't run on a Mediatek SoC. At worst, ask people to reflash to another Android ROM when switching. User software and data is on another partition anyway, and you can force Android to recompile all user applications by clearing your cache partition.