The Fairphone 2 is probably one of the longest officially supported phones, having been launched in 2015 with Android 5.1 pre-installed.
After more than seven years and 43 software updates, the Fairphone 2 received the last patch update of its life cycle.
The company says that today’s software update for Android 10 will be the last for the phone, which has lasted more than seven years, even though the original goal was to support “three to five years” of updates for the phone.
Fairphone has previously said that providing updates over such a long period of time has not been easy and that the bigger challenge has come from Qualcomm’s side. As of December last year, Qualcomm provided three major OS updates and four years of security updates for its chips. Once that support ends, however, manufacturers like Fairphone will be on their own if they want to continue updating their phones.
The configuration, Fairphone 2 phone with Snapdragon 801 chip, 5-inch 1920×1080 resolution IPS LCD screen, 2GB LPDDR3 memory, 32GB eMMC 5 storage, front 8MP camera, rear 12MP camera, built-in removable 2420mAh battery, with USB 2.0 The body measures 143x73x11mm and weighs 168 grams.
