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‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones / A recent survey of teens found that 87% have iPhones, and don’t plan to switch (archive.ph)
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[–] Coolcoder360 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Fairphone. Fairphone 2 was updated from Android 5 through 10 (5 years on the latest version) Fairphone 3 started at 9 and is currently on Android 13, that's five years, and hasn't had it's last update yet.

That's two Android phones with at least 5 years on the latest OS, and Fairphone 2 got patch updates until this year, giving it support and updates from 2014 until 2023

[–] neonred 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

FairPhone 3 user here. It's true, just updated to Android 13, came with 9.

Additionally: Micro-SD, Dual-SIM, replaceable battery, can be repaired by myself at home, cheap/fair priced replacement parts and ethically sourced ressources.

It. is. possible.

[–] Coolcoder360 1 points 1 year ago

Granted, Fairphone had to entirely do the BSP and entire update themselves because the SoC vendor doesn't support A13.

The real issue here isn't with the OEMs it's the chip set vendors not supporting Android as long.