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…

Have a try in the marketplace at this forum .

The EU ecodesign requirements mandates at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model not from starting sales. So this is the standard for measuring livetime in the EU. [image] Smartphones and Tablets Product Energy Efficienc…

Thats not applicable for such an old device, that was sold long before this came into place.

Fairphone ain’t one of the big players, so suppliers are not waiting for them to place an order. If possibly only 100 displays are necessary to fill the shelves until August, there will be nobody ready to produce such a small batch. And if Fairphone has to order 5000 to convince a manufacturer to pr…

Hi folks, I’m not tech savvy… I could just about follow iFixit videos, but when it comes to operating systems, I’m at a loss. I would like to de-Google my life, but my freelance consultancy is currently enmeshed :see_no_evil_monkey:. I have a FP3 (no +). I also can’t seem to connect my phone to a …

PS the flash no longer works and sound doesn’t record properly on videos. Hardly any memory left (having to “clean up” storage on a regular basis.

Hello, how about reaching to a local Angel? [image] angel The Fairphone Angels Program and Map (Local support by community members) Local The discussion and questions about this topic are located here arrow_right Fairphone Angels are active volunteers in you…

I’m not well versed in this, but it says “placement on the market”, not “sold”. Wouldn’t this mean that if they manufactured the last FP3 in 2020 and put those units on the online store that year, but sold them in 2022*, the timer would go from 2020? It does not say “from the point of last sale”. S…

hello this EU label should apply to all the smartphones placed on the market in or after June 2025 (definitely not FP3+ then). We have the discussion on it here [image] Smartphones to get a new EU label in June 2025. How will this affect Fairphone? The Industry …

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

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AnotherElk June 14, 2026, 3:27pm 43

But a backup of everything important is taken care of (via cloud)?

This. Don’t mess with work stuff.