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Re:The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautif... by justin66 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:43AM (#24554291)
How well are they supporting the original Fairphone with operating system updates?
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Re:The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautif... by kneckebrot on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:42AM (#24554946)
Don’t know about the shipping OS, but Fairphone 2 is still receiving Lineage OS 17.1 (Android 10) updates:

https://download.lineageos.org/FP2

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Re:The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautif... by montalbano on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:01AM (#24554449)
I 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.
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Re:The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautif... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:10AM (#24554530)
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.

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Re:The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautif... by fgeiger on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @11:54AM (#24556001)
There 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.

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Re:The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautif... by eliaspro on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:49AM (#24555065)
They 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-s...

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Re:The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautif... by fgeiger on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:24PM (#24556444)
Oh 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.

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