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It's sad that the Fairphone 3 is losing support already, though I think that's much more down to upstream vendors of the hardware not providing support for the
by Scandiravian 3y ago
It's sad that the Fairphone 3 is losing support already, though I think that's much more down to upstream vendors of the hardware not providing support for the chipset, not Fairphone themselves
In terms of the release schedule I think it's important to continue to have a "jumping on point" for customers who want to switch to a Fairphone. It's hard to convince someone to replace a 3-5 year old phone for another 3 year old model
As long as they keep providing 8+ years of support for newer models I think it's the best option, since the company also need to have a continuous revenue stream to exist for the full lifetime of their phones
- freedomben 3y agoI agree with you, but the problem for me is, how do I know the Fairphone 5 won't suffer the same fate with security updates?
- Scandiravian 3y agoAs far as I can recall the fp3 was sold with a promise of five years of software updates and parts. I think they're still honouring that and haven't backtracked on any such promises for any of their models, so their track record is good in terms of keeping promises I couldn't find any mention that they backtracked on their promises, but if that were to be the case, that would indeed be a very strong disincentive to trust them on their commitment to the fp5