From Ara modularity to Fairphone evolutivity

[Stefan]

I recommend to read blog posts from Fairphone, if you want to get to know the movement better.

There has been an official statement about future Android upgrades (the previous discussion is also quite interesting):

Android 6.0 Marshmallow / 7 Nougat for FP2?

Hey all, Thank you all for contributing to this discussion! To make something clear: yes: the Fairphone 2 will get an upgrade to a major Android version. This could be 6 or 7. At the moment we are researching which one is the best one to go with. In order to manage expectations, we only confirm what it will be when we are 99,99% sure. People here know we’ve had our fair share of “but you promised xyz!”- comments and we are trying to cut down on those

And we have discussed a possible Fairphone 3 vs. module upgrades:

Fairphone 3 -- Hardware and obsolecence discussion

“According to van Abel, the work on the Fairphone 3 will start in January [2016?], and in the future new Fairphones will enter the market every two to three years.” It looks like there is already a FP3 in the discussion. I think I will skip the FP2, but I would really like to see a more open OEM/SoC choosing process this time. Would this be possible? What are the plans for this so far? Or is it already decided that the FP project will stick with the same OEM & QC?

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