Considering all the comments I’ve seen about their phone basically falling apart it kind of sounds like you should just get an iPhone SE and factor in a battery replacement after 3 years. Day one updates for 5 years and I am severely doubtful you’ll have as many hardware problems if you don’t damage it. Better camera, too.
The Fairphone 2 actually had 7 years of security updates before the support was withdrawn, so it’s pretty likely the Fairphone 3 will last at least 7 years, maybe even longer.
Now let’s see if they actually follow through. I’m skeptical.
Its a fairphone, they should be fair enough.
Doesn’t Qualcomm stop providing drivers after 4 years?
Yeah, but Fairphone decided to make their own drivers after Qualcomm stopped with supporting the chips.
Have they actually done this, or did they just say that they will? It won’t be easy…
They actually made a custom operating system, because Qualcomm dropped support for the SoC. Source: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2021/03/25/android9-fairphone2/
They did it twice; once for the upgrade to Android 9 (took 18 months) and once for the upgrade to android 10 (took 10 months)
Considering all the comments I’ve seen about their phone basically falling apart it kind of sounds like you should just get an iPhone SE and factor in a battery replacement after 3 years. Day one updates for 5 years and I am severely doubtful you’ll have as many hardware problems if you don’t damage it. Better camera, too.
Yes, but 2019 was like 2 years ago so we’ll be fine!
… Right?
The Fairphone 2 actually had 7 years of security updates before the support was withdrawn, so it’s pretty likely the Fairphone 3 will last at least 7 years, maybe even longer.
Security updates are easier than full OS upgrades.