I love this idea so much!
Ethical and environmental rankings of 20 mobile phone brands
Interesting information even without subscribing.
It’s actually not an article but a project that provides a single installer to flash different alternate OSes on smartphones.
From a quick reading it supports FP2 and FP3 and at least Lineage and /e/.
It does come with this warning though
Warning: This application is currently in early alpha state, so use at your own risk! I take no responsibility for bricked devices or dead SD cards.
In the German counterpart to this topic attention was brought to the following …
Well, at some point this was to be expected. However, I do think that seven years is indeed a very good result, considering many vendors don’t even provide more than 1-2 years of updates.
I guess they need the resources still working on the FP2 for other “projects”, so its a bit sad, still completely understandable.
If they would transfer the in-house software development from the Fairphone 2 to the Fairphone 5, it would be a win for the Fairphone 5 in my book.
How they go about issues and updates on the Fairphone 2 seems to me to work out better overall than the outsourcing done for the successors.
Rossmann has found comprehensive schematics for the Fairphone 4 on the Fairphone website, which he likes.
I wasn’t aware of their existence, when were they uploaded? And is there something similar for the Fairphone 3?
- It runs on Android 9
Might feel like it, but yeah, they didn’t research that one very thoroughly, did they 
Fairphone receives €49 million investment
Press release (PDF, 2 pages) | Source (Twitter), screenshot below
Noud Tillemans is Fairphone’s CFO
Now Fairphone has enough money to get two or three more employees for their support! 
. Worth every penny.I think I can publicly state that I’m not the sole recipient of this money 
Check your forum… I’ve just read a recent post of someone wanting to repair their FP2… most parts NOT available in the FP shop… the irony!
Don’t blame me 
I’m just sharing an article.