Continuing the discussion from Smartphones to get a new EU label in June 2025. How will this affect Fairphone? : [image] Smartphones to get a new EU label in June 2025. How will this affect Fairphone? I think the major issue is they’ll have to get much faster at feature updates. They currently ta…

Wait is over. [image] Android 16 for Fairphone 6 mobile_phone_with_arrow tada The Products Dear Fairphone community, Tonight, March 16, we are officially beginning the phased rollout of Android 16 on Fairphone 6! This update brings a set of new features and …

This just went live on their socials. I’m really excited to see this happening tbh. [Screenshot_20260223-102034]

Just in case anyone wonders: This “story” on Fairphone’s social media does not include any link or any further information. ▶ ALT text – created for Mastodon, so I thought I could just re-use it here in. Click to read.

Well, I should hope so! :slightly_smiling_face: I do still have to wonder what kind of marketing genius came up with the name “The Fairphone (Gen. 6)” and expected anyone outside of the company to call it that. It’s hardly going to stop me from getting either “Gen. 7” or “Gen. 8” to replace my FP4 …

I saw this aswell today! The only question is what ‘soon‘ is. Hopefully it will come in the Febuary/March update, which should come out ‘soon‘…

Is the FP6 A16 expected to have a Security Patch more recent than the current e/os (February)?? And isn’t soon already in the past ? Come on!

[image] Greenflare: And isn’t soon already in the past ? Come on! I think by “soon” they meant something along “the next update if nothing blows up”. The next update would be the March update - my guess would be around mid-March with a staged rollout that reaches everyone by the end of March …

I’m so happy about this one, can’t wait to use it on my Gen. 6. [image] Fairphone Gen 6 is getting Android 16 this April Fairphone has confirmed to Android Authority that its Fairphone Gen 6 will get Android 16 starting this spring. Est. reading time: 2 minutes …

For those with an older Fairphone, the articles closes with There’s no word yet on when we should expect to see Android 16 on Fairphone’s older devices.

I bet will be there first week of may with January security patch

I bet it will be the February Patch :wink: I want to switch back from /e/os 3.5-15 that’s impossible at this time :frowning:

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