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Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable

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401 points Bluestein | 4 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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msgodel ◴[23 Jun 25 16:52 UTC] No.44357671[source]▶
They should switch to an SOC with mainline Linux support so you don't have to throw it out in three years.
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jacek ◴[23 Jun 25 17:25 UTC] No.44357999[source]▶
> They should switch to an SOC with mainline Linux support so you don't have to throw it out in three years.

Starting 20th of June this year (so 3 days ago) every new phone released in European Union will need to have software updates for at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market. This might be the first one released under new regulations. Also looking at Fairphone's history it looks like they really support their phones for a long time.

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1. snvzz ◴[23 Jun 25 23:58 UTC] No.44361461[source]▶
I wonder if I am alone in thinking 5yr is way too short. It should be 10, if not 20 years.

This is software, not hardware. It is ridiculous to pretend it is ok for a phone to artificially stop being useful after just 5 years simply because the vendor won't give software support or even provide the necessary documentation, source code and keys for the community to do.

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2. jabl ◴[24 Jun 25 04:55 UTC] No.44362954[source]▶
I agree with you, but still, 5y is better than nothing.
3. jacek ◴[24 Jun 25 07:33 UTC] No.44363725[source]▶
True, longer would be better. And if the platform was truly open, we could just treat phone like PCs. You can still install Linux on a 20 year old machine and it will work.

At least this is 5 years from "the end of placement on the market". So more realistically it should be around 7 years from release.

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4. palata ◴[24 Jun 25 20:27 UTC] No.44370669[source]▶
This.

Why can't we enforce that they mainline their hardware?