Six-year-old Fairphone 2 is getting Android 10
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Narazumono, 24 Nov 2021Most Android phones can run atleast 4 software updates. The... more"Most". Being actually basically none. Samsung is one of rare exceptions that has released software updates for many years per device. Most other brands, you're lucky if you get 3. And it most often depends on price you paid for it. OnePlus is a painful example of that. Only flagship model gets 3 years. The lowest end N models get only 1 year. ONE YEAR. And I bet they don't even release monthly updates actually monthly within that sad 1 year. But OnePlus isn't the only example, almost entire Android segment is like this, again with Samsung being a bright example of opposite behavior. I hate them for certain other things, but not for software support in recent years. They are really doing well.
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[deleted post]Yes i once owned a phone that launched with 5.0. It got up to 6.0, that’s it end-of-life
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bruhman, 24 Nov 2021ok, he said average not allHe said „who wants a phone for six years?“ well I‘m at 5 now so it’s not far off
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Most Android phones can run atleast 4 software updates. The reason they don't is because companies want you to give them money by buying new phones. They don't want you to stick with the same phone for years so the best way is to stop supporting them, forcing people to upgrade or stay with an unsupported device
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dbjungle, 24 Nov 2021Seriously... This is nothing to brag about. Getting Andro... moreShow me a single non iPhone smartphone that gets ANY official update after 5 years, let alone 6? I'll wait. Fairphone 2 apparently launched with Lollipop 5.1. How many "other" Android phones that launched with Lollipop 5.1 received Android 10 ? Lol, not a single one. In fact, you were lucky if you ever received 6.0 Marshmallow on any of those, let alone 7.0 Nougat.
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Anonymous, 24 Nov 2021It is not that simple.
Iphone is a cult. Tons of people... moreWhile it's true that iPhones have a special status, if all phone manufacturers stopped releasing new phones, then we would have to buy the old ones like the S9. The price would have dropped by now and the phone is better than most midrangers in most specs apart from battery: SD 845, flagship camera with OIS and 4K video recording, Gorilla glass build, super-amoled HDR10 display, fast UFS 2.1 storage etc.).
Tech IS advancing at a fast pace (e.g. bigger battery capacities and faster charging standards), but I still think that phones could go for much longer than they currently do. Phone manufacturers make this hard, for example, by not selling replacement batteries. This forces one to use third party ones or more often than not, just buy a new phone to avoid the hustle of getting a new battery (at least for androids). Furthermore, with the current state Android OS, you aren't missing out on a lot of features by not getting the latest OS version e.g. android 12 apart from security updates which are of course very critical. Security updates still remain to be an issue.
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- Anonymous
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Anonymous, 24 Nov 2021It is not that simple. Iphone is a cult. Tons of people... moreIt's only a cult because YOU say it is. It's not a cult if you can value actual support that spans beyond 5 years. Something Android users can't even grasp at all. Besides, no one even cares. You folks are all about specs specs specs and what price it has. It's the ONLY thing you look for. And now you're here preaching how Fairphone is blablabla because it gives Fairphone 2 users Android 10 after 6 years. Do you people even listen to yourselves?
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rizki1, 24 Nov 2021android 10 is from 2019 and this phone is from 2015 so the ... moreSeriously... This is nothing to brag about. Getting Android 10 when it came out would have been good, but no one is scoring points pushing out Android 10 in at the end of 2021.
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- Anonymous
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Anonymous, 24 Nov 2021Well to be fair there are only at most 4 iPhones released p... moreSupport would be same even if there were 12 new iphones per year.
Apple makes more money with phones/tablets than all other combined.
They can burn 💰 with iOS support.
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- Anonymous
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Anonymous, 24 Nov 2021If they didn't stop selling old phones, maybe they wou... moreIt is not that simple.
Iphone is a cult. Tons of people just want an iphone, no matter if model from 2021 or 2018.
What are chances that someone in the end of 2021 would buy the S9+ brand new for example $450?
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- Anonymous
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RealLifePhones, 24 Nov 2021Samsung has 4 years and Google 5 years of timely updates. I... moreSamsung has 3 years of major updates and 1 extra security only. Google had just 3 years of major. 5 years was only announced with Pixel 6. The rest of the industry mostly gets you just 2 years, in most cases just 1 year and even that with sporadic monthly security updates that aren't even released monthly. If it's Android 10 with all the security fixes implemented till today, then it's technically not an issue. Question is, is it really?
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Anonymous, 24 Nov 2021While one may mock them for that, the fact they even issued... moreSamsung has 4 years and Google 5 years of timely updates. I'd prefer that over Fairphones approach 🤷♂️
And it's not like I can't see the struggles they've been through (check the english wikipedia on fairphone for more) because there is just no driver support from qualcomm beyond 2 years (2021 chips onward 3 years) and as long as that doesn't change there is no hope for timely longterm support 😕 we should start blaming qualcomm way more for that because it's NOT the OEMs, it's not Google it's mostly QUALCOMMS FAULT! Without properly functioning drivers it's extremely complicated to get a new firmware running stable and doing that for an entire line-up of phones is expensive as f*ck
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Anonymous, 24 Nov 2021I’ve had my phone for 5 years nowok, he said average not all
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rizki1, 24 Nov 2021android 10 is from 2019 and this phone is from 2015 so the ... moreExactly!
Everybody calm your tits down, no need to burn other oem's down lol
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- Anonymous
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Android.Authority, 24 Nov 2021Who wants to use a phone for six years? Just to claim long ... moreI’ve had my phone for 5 years now
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- Anonymous
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I am deeply impressed. Take notes Google
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Anonymous, 24 Nov 2021Hey Samsung how are you ??!!!Samsung is actually doing pretty good.
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L.O.R.D, 24 Nov 2021This makes all those companies sound like a joke when they ... moreTotally agree with you
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Who wants to use a phone for six years? Just to claim long software support???
Things move fast in the smartphone tech world.
The average user upgrades every 2-3yrs.
iOS or Android doesn't matter, the statistics are same.
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RealLifePhones, 24 Nov 2021Great they got a 2019 OS running on that just 3 years late 👌You sound so ungrateful. It might be 2 gens behind but for a 6 year old phone to support official OS is very good . Bet you're a sammy or xiaomi fanboy . How's Xiaomis updates btw ;)