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Well fairphone was even more of a gimmick than this one. Other than word fair, it was equally useless as all other phones due to the usual planned obsolescence
by bubblethink 8y ago
Well fairphone was even more of a gimmick than this one. Other than word fair, it was equally useless as all other phones due to the usual planned obsolescence and lack of software. This one, assuming it ships, will at least be serviceable if they get a mainline stack running without too many blobs. That doesn't make it practical or attractive, but at least you won't be forced to chuck it in the bin after a couple of years due to lack of software.
- Fnoord 8y agoWhich Fairphone? The original or Fairphone 2? Mistakes were made with the original Fairphone. The SoC couldn't be updated to a newer kernel version and the binary blobs meant they couldn't get any update past Android 4.x. Which sucks if you bought that smartphone, but doesn't mean the company did not learn from that mistake. Also, replacement parts weren't available either because the company couldn't source them in great amounts due to lack of funds. Some replacement parts required components which weren't made anymore. They had some initial problems with this in the release after FP2 but they tackled these.