• gelberhut@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    Fairphone is a leader in long time support, but it is a very very small and niche brand.

    And, to be fair, they offered this for single model only so far. Track record is mixed: I saw people complain that Fairphone is very late with their updates.

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      1 year ago

      Fairphone is a leader in long time support, but it is a very very small and niche brand.

      That does not exempt them from leading the industry, though.

      And, to be fair, they offered this for single model only so far.

      “The Redmi K60 Extreme Edition was launched in China last week. This update promise currently applies to this phone in China.”

      The 2015 Fairphone 2 got a final bugfix update last March, so even without a formal announcement, they managed to achieve that.

      Track record is mixed: I saw people complain that Fairphone is very late with their updates.

      Oh, they’re definitively not perfect but update cycles is also not the sole things Faiphone is about.

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        1 year ago

        That does not exempt them from leading the industry, though.

        It does. The industry longer support time is currently driven by the industry leaders Xiaomi has to compete - Samsung, Google and Apple.

        Oh, they’re definitively not perfect but update cycles is also not the sole things Faiphone is about.

        Sure. I do not say that Fairphone is bad or anything like that. But comparing support time one should also consider update speed and wiality. It could happen that 4 years of OS update delivers more than 6 years in a real life.

        Btw, do you have a Fairphone?