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Re:Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six yea... by blendergeek on Thursday September 30, 2021 @10:22AM (#28706654)
> Updating an Android device without chipset-vendor support is unprecedented, but Fairphone still spent the money and partnered with the LineageOS community to make it happen.

I know it is unprecedented . . . for a manufacturer to endorse releasing Android versions without chipset support. But, seriously, LineageOS does this all the time with their supported devices.

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Re:Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six yea... by karyon on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:39PM (#28709597)
LineageOS does not have certification (i.e. does not meet Google's quality standards) to install the Google applications. Manufacturers who want to ship with Google Apps have to take everything up a notch to get the certification, which is a huge amount of work (on top of everything that LineageOS and the likes are doing).
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