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Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support – Ars Technica
Qualcomm ended support for the phone after Android 6, but Fairphone is still going.
Enlarge/ The Fairphone 2 and its many modules.
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Fairphonethe sustainable, modular smartphone companyis still shipping updates to the 5-year-old Fairphone 2. The company won’t win any awards for speed, but the phonewhich launched in 2015 with Android 5is now being updated to Android 9.0. The most interesting part of this news is a video from Fairphone detailing the update process the company went through, which offers more transparency than we normally get from a…
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