Fairphone 1 maintenance comes to an end

[Stefan]

@petefoth

I have now passed on my FP1U to a friend based in the Netherlands, and he is very happy with it. I didn’t tell him that the software was only a beta version and he has not noticed that it is. Great work, and thanks again!

Hehe That’s a good move! It’s seriously quite stable. The only thing that bothers me a bit is that the battery statistics are messed up (not battery life itself). At the end of the day I am still at 40%, but then it drops to 15% in a minute. Still, I think that most people wouldn’t notice that the alpha Android kitkat is not actually labelled as “stable”.

@H0w4rd

Can’t you at least release a new version of Android 4.2 with some security fixes? Please. I don’t need Android 4.4, but I don’t want to use OS with security holes.

Thanks to Google they can’t. Google has long ago stopped releasing its Android Security Bulleting for versions below Kitkat.

@hagmeier

Anyway, can I still subscribe for the Android 4.4 Beta program? I would at least like to run the latest beta to continue using my phone as long as possible

@nikos

Could you then please publish the Beta in its current state. I am using the Alpha and it’s quite stable, but I would be happier to use the most current version.

@hagmeier @nikos You can download and install the last alpha build from this topic. The last version is “alpha-pre3” and there was no beta release.