Fairphone 4 is not getting Android 14 after all

Michail, 23 May 2025

Fairphone, the sustainable Dutch smartphone brand, was supposed to bring Android 14 to its nearly four-year-old Fairphone 4, but that is not happening. A company representative confirmed the news via a post on the Fairphone forum.

Fairphone 4 is not getting Android 14 after all

Fairphone planned to ship the Android 14 update to users by the start of 2025, but the software team ran into unexpected issues, including factors outside of their control. Instead of continuing its uphill battle, Fairphone is now shifting its focus and resources to deliver Android 15 for the Fairphone 4. The company is not ready to share a detailed launch timeline just yet but it will post more updates as it gets closer to launch.

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If you can upgrade soc snd ufs memory that will be the best. No in near future

  • Anonymous
  • 26 May 2025
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SD 750G inside the Fairphone 4 is very old to keep an update. Well its because, the Kernel build was 4.19, means as of today reached EOL. So with Android 14, it could be unofficially supported and even A15. As a result, Fairphone 4 makers h...

Then you can do it yourself, because clearly it is so easy and you can do it for free :-D

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