How are these industry-leading policies when Fairphone, a much smaller company, is promising 5 android updates and 8 years of security updates? And it’s not like Fairphone doesn’t have a good track record AFAIK.
On the other hand, Samsung makes their own SoCs so they can choose how long to support (the models for certain markets models of) their phones. They could upstream Linux support for easy future capability if they wanted to.
How are these industry-leading policies when Fairphone, a much smaller company, is promising 5 android updates and 8 years of security updates? And it’s not like Fairphone doesn’t have a good track record AFAIK.
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That does not exempt them from leading the industry, though.
“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.
Oh, they’re definitively not perfect but update cycles is also not the sole things Faiphone is about.
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It literally doesn’t.
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In long-term support of Android: Absolutely.
No, not even close.
Indeed. I live in reality and you live in a fantasy world where five full Android upgrades and eight years of bugfixes are not leading the industry.
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Tbf the Fairphone 5 uses a SoC that is specifically chosen for longer support.
On the other hand, Samsung makes their own SoCs so they can choose how long to support (the models for certain markets models of) their phones. They could upstream Linux support for easy future capability if they wanted to.