Fairphone and Communication

[paulakreuzer]

@spaetz

But do they work on Marshmallow? We don’t know

Yes we do know:

@Douwe

We are pleased to announce that we will be releasing the upgrade of the Fairphone 2’s operating system from Android 5.1 Lollipop to Android 6 Marshmallow in the next few months.

@spaetz

I still don’t get why they do not base everything on a single OS base

I think that is pretty much the case. The two OSs are not so different that it takes double the time to maintain them. Fairphone fixes bugs and integrates security fixes. As soon as they get approved by Google the new FP OS is released and the process to integrate them into FP Open begins.

@spaetz

a single OS base with an equivalent to the GAPPS package for their regular Google-loving users.

That’s not an option if they want to keep Googles official support. Without it we can say goodbye to Android 6+ and to monthly security updates.