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Don’t know about the shipping OS, but Fairphone 2 is still receiving Lineage OS 17.1 (Android 10) updates:

https://download.lineageos.org/FP2

I can't speak for fairphone 1. But I have had my fairphone 2 for 4.5 years now and I am very happy with software updates.

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/204642759-Op...

Is it the case that Fairphone 2 is only on Android 7.1? I understand it's modified, but I don't think we can consider that really supported with updates with an OS that old.

There are two aspects to software updates on Android devices:

* Major version upgrades ("cookie upgrades") and * Security updates

Fairphone 2 still receives security updates for Android 7 and Android 9 for Fairphone 2 is in beta.

They made the mistake of selecting Mediatek for the FP1 and ran out of viable options to keep supporting it at some point.

The hardware support was EOL'd due to supply chain issues: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2017/07/20/why-we-had-to-stop-s...

Oh yes, indeed. I still feel the pain as I was working on that ...

For subsequent devices (FP2 and FP3) the situation has improved a bit but frankly, long term support from Qualcomm is also non-existent. We are still struggling to bring updates to the old platform of FP2.