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Is the fairphone really worth it?
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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I was made aware that at most its 5 years of security updates due to the QCM6490 and then software for the remainder. 5 years is still pretty good but at that price point I would wait to see what google has to offer and then use grapheneos if its an option.
Fairphone is still keeping the FP3 alive and the hardware support for that phone has long since ended. They promise to work around the lacking support for the drivers of the FP5 and I believe that they will.
They will issue updates. But they can't work around base firmware security issues. That's the problem. The SOC drivers are connected to everything, they have total control of the phone, if there's a security issue there it's game over. No amount of operating system patching is going to help you
Also, 5 years counting from where