Ars TechnicaFairphone 5 sets a new standard with 8-10 years of Android support
The Fairphone 5 will keep on trucking until at least 2031.
jnthnkl@arstechnica When Qualcomm's support ends, I guess Fairphone will just freeze the latest Qualcomm binaries as is in the vendor partition and only update the Android framework ?
steakfrite@jnthnkl @arstechnica According to Fairphone, they specifically chose a chipset from qualcomm that has a guaranteed 8 years of support.
That means they have a higher chance of actually reaching their advertised 8 years of support, compared to previous models that never reached their advertised support target precisely because the SoC reached end of life before then.
That means they have a higher chance of actually reaching their advertised 8 years of support, compared to previous models that never reached their advertised support target precisely because the SoC reached end of life before then.
@steakfrite @arstechnica 8 years ? I have read 5.
"[...] because Qualcomm wants to give "industrial" gear a longer lifetime (5 years) than "consumer" products."
@jnthnkl @arstechnica You might be right... I over-interpreted FP's blog post about the fairphone 5. 5 years of qualcomm support is supposedly better, but still a bit disappointing...