Longevity of Qualcomm support for Android updates on FP6

[AnotherElk]

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The feasibility of a OEM’s support for multiple years of Android upgrades and security patches is heavily influenced by the respective support by the SoC manufacturer. The Fairphone team faced this issue already on the FP2 with the 2021 upgrade to Android 9, after Qualcomm had stopped supporting new versions of Android on the 2013 Snapdragon 801.

Actually, they already faced issues with the 2019 Fairphone 2 upgrade to Android 7, because Qualcomm had stopped support after Android 6 … Investing in long-lasting design: Android 7 for the Fairphone 2 - #123 by Monica.Ciovica .

In the end, they managed to do an official, Google certified Android 10 on the Snapdragon 801, coming from Android 5 originally … FP2: Android 10: Fairphone OS / Fairphone Open 23.02.0-rel.0 .