With five major OS ugrades and eight years of patches.

Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

  • Nobilmantis@feddit.itEnglish
    146·
    9 months ago

    Google sure is creating a lot of Pixel-fanboys by instilling this myth that if you dont get daddy google’s precious over-the-air updates delivered to your phone in 30 seconds after their release your phone might be at great risk®™ (exactly like if you dont let google play store scan the apps on your device to look for malicious software, like F-Droid, a common known attack vector).

    Because surely Fairphone users are all government officials with nuclear codes and Kim Jong-un’s nudes saved in their notes and teams of indian hackers are 24/7 waiting for a security update to release, so they can unpack the zero-day-vulnerabilities before fairphone gets their release-cycle

    Can you please elaborate further on this “component lifespan” thing? Because I think they were quite clear on the processor life cycle.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
      91·
      9 months ago

      Not all components included will get security updates for as long as their OS will.

      Agree that instant updates are not essential for many people, but you dont need 0days to abuse publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.

      • Nobilmantis@feddit.itEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        What components are you talking about? Can you provide some sort of source or reference or something? Are you maybe talking about the data modem?

        • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yes a lot of parts. The Kernel is made for that specific SOC and may not get updated.

          Then you have various parts like the modem are made by Samsung, Broadcomm etc. and need their firmware updates.