dwazou@jlai.lu to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 hours agoThe Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.shop.fairphone.comexternal-linkmessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up1520arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1511arrow-down1external-linkThe Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.shop.fairphone.comdwazou@jlai.lu to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 hours agomessage-square124fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNotForYourStereo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·8 hours agoEvery other version of Android gets security updates out within a couple weeks of release at most. /e/OS users are lucky if they get them within a couple months.
minus-squaresudneo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 hour agoNo offense, but that’s not what a security dumpster fire is. Security updates are important, of course, but they are also not the biggest deal. In fact, I bet that the vast majority of users (on Android or otherwise) are lagging way behind in updates anyway.
minus-squarestephen01king@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoThanks for the answer. How does it compare against other Android forks in terms of security update speed? Also, isn’t Fairphone once also criticised for falling behind on Android security updates or was I misremembering this?
minus-squareNotForYourStereo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-27 hours agoIt’s literally the worst. Also correct, though I am not particularly familiar with Fairphone. Seems like they are down to bimonthly updates, if that. *We are including two months of security patching in a bi-monthly maintenance release.
Can you explain?
Every other version of Android gets security updates out within a couple weeks of release at most.
/e/OS users are lucky if they get them within a couple months.
No offense, but that’s not what a security dumpster fire is. Security updates are important, of course, but they are also not the biggest deal.
In fact, I bet that the vast majority of users (on Android or otherwise) are lagging way behind in updates anyway.
Thanks for the answer. How does it compare against other Android forks in terms of security update speed?
Also, isn’t Fairphone once also criticised for falling behind on Android security updates or was I misremembering this?
It’s literally the worst.
Also correct, though I am not particularly familiar with Fairphone. Seems like they are down to bimonthly updates, if that.