It's almost time to say goodbye to the Fairphone 3. That’s the subject of the e-mail fairphone send today. They should have dropped the “3”. In the e-mail they said “that software support for the Fairphone 3 and 3+ will end in August 2026”. That’s not even four years after its end of sale (Nov 202…

Sadly, no perpetuum explainile will stop users from a self-dreamed up fantasy reality from blaming good for not being perfect in actual reality when it’s actual reality forcing good to not be perfect yet. While Fairphone has real problems in actual reality which should be fixable like e.g. dysfunct…

I am sorry to hear about all those sharing negative experiences about their use of FPs. I have heard some them throughout the years and that is part of life, I guess. I am still happy with my buy in 2020. I must say I have struggled to keep it usable. For many years I had to deal with the fact that …

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Your FP3 isn’t going to stop working - it’s just not getting updates. Whether you are comfortable with that is another matter. In any event, as others have commented, the FP3 was released in 2019 - and 7 years is absolutely “long term” in the world of smartphones - most phones don’t even last thre…

[image] erots: you would have the same problem replacing any other handset? there are ~100€ brand new phones on the market, but generally they don’t support privacy respectfull alternative android OS

We bought a used FP2 to supply spare parts for our FP2s making 2 of 3 devices. Thus, both lived for almost 8 years. BTW: If anybody is interested, we still have some parts and a spare battery for FP2.

I am very disappointed to learn that software support for my smartphone will end in August 2026, effectively rendering it obsolete in terms of official updates. This situation seems to contradict your policy of sustainability and device longevity. My Fairphone 3 works perfectly and I have no intent…

Welcome and some other views above [image] FP3 Official software support and spare part sales will conclude in August The Products Install /e/ os or ask for help to do it and your phone will still get security updates. The problem comes from Android that cannot…

My FP2 still works perfectly fine as MP3 player And FP just stated [image] uk Interesting links / news articles somehow related to Fairphone this LinkedIn post also claimed yesterday that “over 2000 Fairphone :two: devices are still in active use” (out of a little under 115000 FP2 sold ).

FP3 Official software support and spare part sales will conclude in August

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I really like that phrase a lot, thanks.

It’s a bit of a deja vu here compared to the responses to the announcement that software support of the FP3 will end after Android 13 back in July 2024