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How well are they supporting the original Fairphone with operating system updates?
by justin66 6y ago
How well are they supporting the original Fairphone with operating system updates?
- montalbano 6y agoI can't speak for fairphone 1. But I have had my fairphone 2 for 4.5 years now and I am very happy with software updates.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agohttps://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/204642759-Operating-systems-OS-for-the-Fairphone-2 https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/204642759-Op... Is it the case that Fairphone 2 is only on Android 7.1? I understand it's modified, but I don't think we can consider that really supported with updates with an OS that old.
- fgeiger 6y agoThere are two aspects to software updates on Android devices: * Major version upgrades ("cookie upgrades") and * Security updates Fairphone 2 still receives security updates for Android 7 and Android 9 for Fairphone 2 is in beta.
- kneckebrot 6y agoDon’t know about the shipping OS, but Fairphone 2 is still receiving Lineage OS 17.1 (Android 10) updates: https://download.lineageos.org/FP2 https://download.lineageos.org/FP2
- eliaspro 6y agoThey made the mistake of selecting Mediatek for the FP1 and ran out of viable options to keep supporting it at some point. The hardware support was EOL'd due to supply chain issues: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2017/07/20/why-we-had-to-stop-supporting-the-fairphone-1/ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2017/07/20/why-we-had-to-stop-s...
- fgeiger 6y agoOh yes, indeed. I still feel the pain as I was working on that ... For subsequent devices (FP2 and FP3) the situation has improved a bit but frankly, long term support from Qualcomm is also non-existent. We are still struggling to bring updates to the old platform of FP2.