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Hi, yes I am absolutely aware. Though it might be a bit off topic here to get into a lengthy comparison of these two companies and their products.

Briefly. The same chipset as FP5 yet longer updates promised, a replaceable battery, higher IP rating, the communication done mostly in German ( I need to use the translator to fully grasp what is going on) and it does not seem like a finished out-of-the box product yet (as far as I can understand their webpages properly). Some of the updated software is released in light version without Google Services presumably because Google Certification is pending but that is a bit above my tech level to get into the details. Finally, ordering it now should get you a phone in October.

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Of course I am, I am very aware of that!

But why do you think I have started this thread if it was so easy for me?
Me and my wife, we are Fairphone customers since day one! My wife has participated in the original croudfunding of FP1, we both have invested money into the company some years ago, we have both bought FP3s, my wife has upgraded to FP3+…

I could simply walk away, but instead I invest my time into this thread with the intention to give valuable feedback to the company, please appreciate that!

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you made your point clear and I would say all was said and all that follows now is just repetition and not adding any further new info

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On my part, if there are issues with running android smoothly (or at all) in 2030+ with only 8GB of RAM, I feel fairly confident that de-googled OSes will still work. Most of the RAM increase seems to be driven by an increase in background services, data collection, AI and VR (Fairphone doesn’t even support AR, I think? So why the concern about VR?), none of which are interesting to me.

I am of the opinion that even light gaming will be fine. I know of a simulator game being currently developed for all platforms (including PC), and the developer is intending to make it run well on surprisingly budget devices by our standards…

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I think you missed a very important law in Europe that is now applied : every phone maker has to update a phone released after June 2025 for at least 5 years after the last phone produced.

If Google doesn’t want to make a bad advertisement of Android and then lose money (less data for sale), it should keep the Android devices work well during the legal period at least.
What will happen is that you won’t be able to run heavier AI stuffs locally.

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