FP2 will be shipped with 5.1.(1?). But will there ever be an update to Marshmallow (6.0)? Would be great to hear from the Fairphone Team. And of course some opinions from some tech savvy FP users… :smile:

[image] Keeping your phone longer with a refresh on the inside and out The Products Originally published at: Keeping your phone longer with a refresh on the inside and out - Fairphone There’s nothing better than the feeling of a new phone in your hand… except for the f…

[image] TobiasF: That is normal for PCs. Except you want to play some high-end games on it. I’m not sure if this is what @anon9505190 meant, but I guess the issue he addressed, or how I read it, is rather a question of vendor support but hardware obsolescence. I agree with you, the hardware…

Well, Fairphone may be too small a company to be heard, but maybe Sony or somebody in that league might talk QC into maintaining that line of chipset?

Actually I meant the general software crisis. Means that new software always overstrain old Hardware by resources requirements. Taking the Nexus products it doesnot become obvious because hardware & software was designed to overcome more years than e.g. LGs products especially cheaper ones. But …

I buy a fairphone to support the ecologic/ethic idea (And android 6 will be gut enough for me), so I don’t know if it’s possible but perhaps in the future can we buy only a new chipset that support Android 7 or next. And replace the current chipset of the fairphone 2 ? it is technically possible ? C…

Your little knight would fight with the snapdragon from qualcom ? :smile: Maybe you wanted to ask if replacing the main board with a new processor makes sense only regarding the technical side ? This question would make sense if you would not ask for replacement but for a complete new device starte…

Here’s an interesting (and somewhat long) article about the inner workings of chip support for Android phones [image] In-Depth Capitulation of Why SD801 Devices Are Excluded from Nougat In this article we explore the truth as to why Snapdragon 801 devices are not getting Android Nougat. …

after all, we are XDA, the home of the HTC HD2, the longest lasting phone in the world… (just for the record, the crazy geniuses over there are running Android 6.0 on the HD2 these days! Not bad for a phone originally shipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 in 2009) I wonder if FP2 will break this record…

It looks like having CM (among others, probably) is a (the right?) way to longevity. Looking at the devices from this article, or take the Samsung Galaxy S3 (which my wife’s using for three years now), a very successful CM11 (KitKat) implementation, they skipped Lollipop (at least as an official CM)…

Just read this in an article on Arstechnica: After doing some digging and talking to some people, we can say that it will be either very difficult if not completely impossible for any phone that uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 or 801 to get an official, Google-sanctioned Nougat update (including th…

Hi all, i just got a FP2 and really liked it from the beginning (I also had none of the known problems). There is just one major flaw that makes it practically unuseable for me: there is no possibility to restrict app-permissions! (I totally forgot when buying it that 5.1 doesn’t have something lik…

Android 6.0 Marshmallow / 7 Nougat for FP2?

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lklaus August 31, 2016, 3:53pm 216

Here’s an interesting (and somewhat long) article about the inner workings of chip support for Android phones

Fairphone 2 available?

Fairphone 3 should be an Android One device