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What's the point of having modular hardware, if the software-side only get a lifetime of (at least) 1 major version?
by tmikaeld 7y ago
What's the point of having modular hardware, if the software-side only get a lifetime of (at least) 1 major version?
- Fnoord 7y agoYou get 5 year guaranteed support for the FP3. The FP2 launched with 5.1, and it is now on Android 7. We got Android 9 working via LineageOS but that is weekly snapshots which can (and will) break. The problem here, btw, is Qualcomm.
- tmikaeld 7y agoSo, that's why they can't leave guarantees then, they simply don't know how long Qualcomm will support the chipset. I wonder how this compares to other chipset makers
- est31 7y agoDoesn't Qualcomm also contribute to mainlining of kernel support? Are the drivers for the FP3 SOC upstreamed in mainline? If not, is there an effort to do that?
- jonahrd 7y agoAgreed. I would definitely purchase one if it was marketed more as a platform and less as the third iteration of a phone. If I could buy a better camera that's compatible with the FP3 in a year, then a better screen 2 years later, etc, then I would definitely purchase this.