Founded in 2013, Fairphone continues on its merry way, always with the same leitmotiv: to prove that it is possible to create and manufacture more ethical and sustainable smartphones. Noble ambitions, which are not always easy to implement in a commercial context. However, the adventure continues and Fairphone strives to make its smartphones live for a very long time.
Thus, at the beginning of the year, the Fairphone 2 had received its last update 7 years after its launch!
And the brand has just announced the arrival of Android 13 on its Fairphone 3 and 3+ smartphones in the middle of summer.
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When they launched, the company had committed to produce updates for these two models until 2024, but today it would consider pushing until 2026. As a reminder, the Fairphone 3 was launched in 2019 running Android 9, while the 3+, released the following year, has Android 10 on board. users will therefore have the possibility by mid-August to switch directly from Android 11 to Android 13.
The brand indicates that Qualcomm has stopped support for the Snapdragon 632 processor which powers these two models. The update is therefore the fruit of the work of the Fairphone teams, but the game is worth the effort, because this extended support is completely in line with the values mentioned above, which one sentence summarizes: “Fairphone’s goal remains the same: to push an entire industry to act more responsibly by keeping phones working for as long as possible”.