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With smartphone tech at a plateau - maybe it's time for a sustainable user-serviceable phone with 5 major updates & 8 years of hotfix support https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23843287/fairphone-5-price-release-date-specs-features-repairable-smartphone

Fairphone is promising to update the Fairphone 5 with at least five major Android updates beyond the Android 12 it ships with as well as eight years
of security patches. That should keep the phone usable from a software perspective until 2031, though Fairphone's press release says it's aiming
for 2033 as a stretch goal.

For reference, the company released its last software update for the 2015 Fairphone 2 earlier this year, bringing to an end seven years of software support, handily beating Android competitors like Samsung and Google (which both currently offer up to five years of security updates). The Fairphone 5 also ships with a five-year warranty.

The length of software support being promised for the Fairphone 5 is at
least partially due to Fairphone's use of an enterprise-focused chipset
from Qualcomm, the QCM6490, which is roughly equivalent in specs to the midrange Snapdragon 778G. It's joined by 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage, expandable with up to 2TB via microSD.

A 90Hz OLED display, dual 50-megapixel cameras, and 30W fast charging. But still just as sustainably produced, with a promise of eight years of
software support - but it is not yet released for the US customer base.

It's 6.46 inches in size with a refresh rate of 90Hz and a resolution of
1224 x 2770. Fairphone has upped the number of repair modules in this phone
to 10 because it now allows you to replace the rear cameras individually or replace the module containing the SIM and SD Card slots.

Of course, the battery is still user-replaceable but is also bigger this
time around at 4,200mAh, supports faster 30W charging, and is rated to
survive 1,000 charging cycles.

Meanwhile, Apple's software support is the _shortest_ in the industry.

While Apple only supports one (and only one!) OS release for full hotfix support, Android has _always_ supported hotfixes many times that!
*Apple's hotfix support is the shortest in the entire phone industry*
<https://screenrant.com/apple-product-security-update-lifespan/>

And while Apple locks batteries expressly to discourage consumer repair, Android phones have long used user-replaceable batteries for long life!
*Apple is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Consumer Repairs*
<https://www.macrumors.com/2019/08/08/apple-locking-iphone-batteries-third-party/>

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