FP5 8GB End of sales?

[Meaghan]

Kinda by accident I noticed it is no longer possible to purchase FP5 8GB in the webshop.

There has been a promo labelled Fairphone 5 8GB 2025 last chance promotion for quite some time and I have had this hunch that FP5 sales will end in 2025 but I did expect some BF last minute deals tbh…

No official announcement to be spotted.

[urs_lesse]

I believe Fairphone declared the official end of selling of the FP3 and the FP4 each on December, the 31st of 2022 respectively 2024 (I might be wrong with one of the years, but my point is the “final day of the year” thing). Perhaps there is a legal or tax reason (or something logistical) behind this?

[Meaghan]

The main reason I expected the end of sales soon was connected with the EU label, and FP committing to providing seven years of software updates after the end of placement

Smartphones to get a new EU label in June 2025. How will this affect Fairphone?

Thank you for the comment. Could you link the source? I tried to find it myself and so far I have found something else which might be interesting Software Updates (duration) The ‘Software Updates (duration)’ (SSU) score shall be calculated at product level as follows: Minimum guaranteed availability of security updates, corrective updates and functionality updates to the operating system for at least 7 years = 5 pt. Minimum guaranteed availability of security updates, corrective updates an…

[abittner]

the rule or law only applies to newly released products and future devices from that point onward, doesnt it? doesnt get applied backward in time, does it?

[Meaghan]

Yes, but they did release FP5 EU label, so I guess that expresses some form of commitment.
To the best of my knowledge, they did not have to though.

[Meaghan]

Following on that, there is a promo for 6GB version and 8GB version (along with 6GB one) comes back as a refurbished option

Fairphone 5 | Fairphone

Edited to list all currently available FP versions listed in a promotion description (even though blue one is out of stock)

All Fairphone 5 variants (Matte Black 128GB-6GB RAM, Green 128GB-6GB RAM), Fairphone 5 /e/OS (Matte Black 128GB-6GB RAM, Transparent Edition 256GB-8GB RAM) and Fairphone 5 Refurbished (Matte Black 128GB-6GB RAM, Matte Black 256GB-8GB RAM, Green 128GB-6GB RAM, Sky Blue 256GB-8GB RAM, and Transparent Edition 256GB-8GB RAM)