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What is the best android phone right now that doesn't have a stupid fragile impossible to protect and even more impossible to repair curved screen?

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Fairphone, no brainer

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it's a bit more complicated than that, and it's not factually true. Do you have a better suggestion ?

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Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support

Qualcomm ended support for the phone after Android 6, but Fairphone is still going.

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Have your even read the link ? they did update the phones, your comment is provably wrong. How is Pixel6 better when the track record is PIxel3 / 3 years ?

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Hmm fairphone3 updated should be updated in 2022, it was updated late 2021 (claimed at least fairphone.com/en/2021/09/02/), that's already better than Pixel3 for all I know. Else fair enough, personally this made me switch to Apple unfortunately, less e-waste. Priorities..

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An update on Fairphone 3 - Fairphone

As the saying goes “all good things must come to an end”. After a successful two-year run with the Fairphone 3, we are ending the sale of this phone. But just like what you’d expect from us, we will...

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Fairphone hasn't ever provided security updates for more than around 2 years, and those security updates have always been late, inconsistent and often incomplete. Devices without security updates aren't safe to use. Even the older Qualcomm Pixels provided far longer real support.

9:12 AM · Mar 21, 2022Twitter Web App

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Even if you ignore security support, shipping an update released several years ago today hardly qualifies as providing years of extra support. Security support is needed to safety use devices, and not shipping OS updates on time despite early access is also not proper support.

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Pixel 6 has a minimum guarantee of 5 years of actual support where it receives security support. Fairphone is unable to provide support longer than Qualcomm,. They greatly mislead people about the sustainability of their devices and their lifetimes. That's not a positive thing.

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Not going to discuss, but "Fairphone hasn't ever provided security updates for more than around 2 years" isn't true.

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I'm talking about shipping the full monthly Android security updates (and updates to other non-SoC components) including the half of the updates that are not provided by AOSP. I'm not talking about shipping only the AOSP security updates once a device has end-of-life hardware.

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