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

They should switch to an SOC with mainline Linux support so you don't have to throw it out in three years.

> 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.

The problem is that it's not really up to Fairphone. Qualcomm and Google have to collaborate to provide the artifacts that Fairphone packages and signs for their devices. If for any reason they're unable or unwilling to do that there's nothing Fairphone can do. (and they have pretty consistently failed to do this after just a couple years. In the past it sounds like Fairphone has managed to hack around it with varying degrees of success.)

This is why using SOCs with poor support and closed drivers like this is a terrible idea.