Two years after the previous generation, Fairphone introduced the Fairphone 5 with numerous upgrades to the hardware and tweaks to the design to fit the...
The idea is nice and all, but just keep your phone longer. After 3 years or so, do a factory reset and reinstall ONLY the apps you actually use. That should get you a good year more out of the phone before it starts to get too old. The biggest issue is the lack of seoftware updates. Not getting a new OS is one thing, but the lack of security updates is the biggest problem. Lots of software that people use on a daily basis will stop functioning if they see your OS is behind in security. Unfortunately that’s the problem. Not the hardware, but rather the software.
I would add that it’s the inefficiency of software that drives our phones to the bin.
The applications often relies on non optimized libraries, or are an aggregation of more and more of features and options that then requires the latest phone in order to work.
The idea is nice and all, but just keep your phone longer. After 3 years or so, do a factory reset and reinstall ONLY the apps you actually use. That should get you a good year more out of the phone before it starts to get too old. The biggest issue is the lack of seoftware updates. Not getting a new OS is one thing, but the lack of security updates is the biggest problem. Lots of software that people use on a daily basis will stop functioning if they see your OS is behind in security. Unfortunately that’s the problem. Not the hardware, but rather the software.
I would add that it’s the inefficiency of software that drives our phones to the bin.
The applications often relies on non optimized libraries, or are an aggregation of more and more of features and options that then requires the latest phone in order to work.