Why did Fairphone use an outdated SoC for the FP4 even though they knew Qualcomm would not support it longer?

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Teracube goes the same way as Fairphone.

Hi This is a little off topic.

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2021 USA Availability

I looked into one such company, Teracube, but they’re low-spec $200 phones, which doesn’t bode well for longevity. They also use Mediatek SoCs, which also doesn’t bode well for longevity; as you may know, Qualcomm recently pledged to provide three years of OS updates and four years of security updates. It would be better if they had open-source firmware, but at least it’s something.

Yearly update in the U.S

Hi, sadly not that I know of but maybe you’ve seen this. It’s a step towards more user longevity, repairability etc. but no mention of Fair applying to the miners and factory workers at the hard end of our consumerism. Maybe you could check in on them to see if that is on their agenda

Most Ethical Alternative to Fairphone?

There’s not much info on it yet (pre-crowdfunding phase) but I stumbled over this project in a recent iFixit article.