Latest news [11-07-2017] and FAQ - Fairphone 1 KitKat 4.4.4 update

[Stefan]

@cliff

Having said that, Fairphone should come clean with the current product (Fairphne 2), and prominently state on their front page that the devise may not be upgradable beyond Android 5.1. Otherwise it is misleading to buyers.

They should rather put an information there stating what they have already said a month ago:

Android 6.0 Marshmallow / 7 Nougat for FP2?

Some news just came in and I am happy to share with you all first. We are pleased to announce that we will be releasing the upgrade of the Fairphone 2’s operating system from Android 5.1 Lollipop to Android 6 Marshmallow in the next few months. All Fairphone 2 owners will be able to upgrade for free.

@TLeutritz

So I wonder, how the internal communications works and I also wonder, why the communication to customers is also not the greatest (i.e. I found this forum entry by chance while the official information was announcing an software update in the last quarter of 2016 only one week before this one started

I understand your frustration about the lack of official communications for FP1(U)-owners. There hasn’t been another newsletter about the release of Android 4.4.4 Kitkat for FP1 and if I wouldn’t be a moderator / beta tester I probably wouldn’t know myself about the difficulties. A friend keeps asking me when the update will be ready, as he never goes to this forum.

I’ve been running the alpha version of the Kitkat update and the third iteration (“pre3”, released on 23.11.2016), still has the same bugs as outlined above:

@Douwe

Next to some smaller issues, the two major issues are that Bluetooth does not work reliably with all devices and that battery level is dropping unexpectedly.

If you need Android Kitkat badly for your apps / gadgets to work, you should consider joining the test group:

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/call-for-testers-of-android-4-4alpha-for-fairphone-1/19411?u=urs_lesse

Other than the issues I quoted above it is very stable.