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Woah 8 (probably 5 ) guaranteed years of security updates they beat google to it They didnt mention any security hardware updates like a secure element so probably no grapheneos support still though. Be a good travel phone though but dont expect security
Edit: Seems that their security updates will be limited
We can hope but I wouldn’t bet on it. I just hate that we need to be tied to one company thats known to make drastic changes so having another manufactor would be amazing
Damn thats disappointing so much goddamn potential too. What do you think their solution is going to be when support inevitably ends and they still have to fulfill their promise?
I don’t see where you’ve found that is was released in 2021. All I could find was a announcement in 2022, and a release date marked as “Q2 2023” on a third party websites.
That would align with the announced 5 years of support from Qualcomm and an upstream end of support set to 2028.
Copyright may have been opposed on this document early during development. But anyway, in both case end of support is 2028, which is better than the usual 2-3 years of support for mainline chips.
This is great, and I hope they exceed it. 8 years is still less than what Apple’s oldest phones are getting. The 2013 iPhone 5s is still receiving security updates this year in 2023.
Woah
8(probably 5 ) guaranteed years of security updatesthey beat google to itThey didnt mention any security hardware updates like a secure element so probably no grapheneos support still though. Be a good travel phone though but dont expect securityEdit: Seems that their security updates will be limited
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We can hope but I wouldn’t bet on it. I just hate that we need to be tied to one company thats known to make drastic changes so having another manufactor would be amazing
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Damn thats disappointing so much goddamn potential too. What do you think their solution is going to be when support inevitably ends and they still have to fulfill their promise?
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I don’t see where you’ve found that is was released in 2021. All I could find was a announcement in 2022, and a release date marked as “Q2 2023” on a third party websites.
That would align with the announced 5 years of support from Qualcomm and an upstream end of support set to 2028.
https://chipguider.com/?cpu=qualcomm-qcm6490
https://gadgetversus.com/processor/qualcomm-qcm6490-specs/
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Copyright may have been opposed on this document early during development. But anyway, in both case end of support is 2028, which is better than the usual 2-3 years of support for mainline chips.
This is great, and I hope they exceed it. 8 years is still less than what Apple’s oldest phones are getting. The 2013 iPhone 5s is still receiving security updates this year in 2023.
Rolling release Linux distros: “…and?”
Yeah that’s really cool for all those Linux phones out there. Oh wait, there are like two and a half models in total and none of them are great? Damn.
The Fairphone supports Linux.