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What makes an old phone stay usable? When Fairphone started, the talk was mainly about modular hardware upgrade paths. I've run my OnePlus3 over 4 years now, starting on Android 5. What would have stopped it from being usable is an eventual lack of security upgrades, not new hardware attractions. The OnePlus security patches continued for 3 years and stopped, most Android phonemakers stop after 2. I think security patches are essential on Android. LineageOS is one way to handle that, it's upgraded my OnePlus to Android 10 so far, with monthly security patches around 2 weeks after Google releases them. The chap who started OnePlus put up a demonstration on YouTube a few weeks back. He didn't dismantle his mid-range Nord, he built one. It's worth watching in this context I think, it's clearly modular hardware and easily bought fair-cost OnePlus replacement parts are part of his company ecology - I've put my old model together several times, he's not kidding, it can be done. If any hardware part had failed I could have replaced it, just like the Fairphone would. I've yet to see Fairphone achieve hardware upgrades in the same generation shell but I may have missed that - have they done it yet? When they say "ethical phone gets hardware upgrades", are they talking about their models before version 3 getting updated hardware modules, or are they talking about a new phone model coming out. If it's the former then I'm properly impressed but I'm not sure that's the way it's happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RVkt5XuuxA On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 10:07, Tom via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/31/fairphone-3-review-ethical-smartphone-gets-camera-upgrades > > Tom te tom te tom > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq