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/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There is no option. There is too much variation in the various phone chips for the hardware hacking community to reverse engineer more than a bare handful. And as soon as the hardware has been reverse engineered, it will never be used again by a manufacturer making the exercise largely pointless.

Add to that, the fact that Qualcomm actively discourages long term support of their chips….

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's why Fairphone choose a QCM6490 for the fairphone 5. It's far from being the best, but it has longer term support than mainstream oriented SOC.

Since the SOC will probably be enough for most of users, it's not a bad option I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well then I really hope the Fairphone 5 is gonna get really long term support and start a new trend in that regard.

Just buying a new phone every 5 years isn’t sustainable!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They advert for a support between 8 and 10 years (at least 5 major version of Android, and security patches after that). I don't know their politic about the availability of the repair parts, but if it's for the same amount of time, I'll be happy.

I changed the battery and the usb port of my OP7 last year... the oneplus site didn't sell them anymore, I had to go on aliexpress to have both ... That's quite frustrating for a device that is 5 years old...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

8 to 10 years is good, but it should be just a start.

I’m still using my PlayStation 3 and a computer from 15 years ago (as a backup) and I think it should be the same with smartphones

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Exactly my point. Thank you.