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Fairphone skips the monthly/quarterly releases entirely and has a 1 year delay for the yearly updates for their new devices which gets longer. SoC choice will make this worse. Worth noting the monthly, quarterly and yearly releases need to be shipped for full privacy/security patches and Fairphone ships the partial backports 1-2 months late instead.
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There's also no performance core included in the SoC they're using since it's not meant to be for a user-facing device requiring great performance. It has the 2021 era big and little cores. Cortex X1 was the standard pre-ARMv9 performance core.
Sustainability should include long term support providing all standard updates instead of what they're doing and also good performance at launch so that it's tolerable in 5-7 years. An iPhone or Pixel has far better LTS.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Couldn’t agree more. That’s why my last phone was an iPhone, because they offer long term support, but I still have an eye on Graphene OS. Maybe the next phone…