Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM

I mean, if you're changing phones every year that's on you

7 years of updates sounds good, but it could also mean anything. They can update localisation files for 5 years

You should't change your phone every year. Just but phone with LineageOS support. And reflash it. 3+ years of additional support are yours.

I have been using my S10e for 4,5 years now. It's great!

There is no Fairphone 5 released yet in any regions.

The fairphone 5 isn't out yet

I'm glad that it works for you. Doesn't work for everyone, unfortunately. There are still a few brands out there that release new phones with the jack. Supporting them demonstrates that there's still a market out there. I find Bluetooth buds, even the great ones, a frustrating enough experience that I don't want to rely on ONLY that for music listening.

Same thing with small phones; there aren't many out there, but I show my support where I can. I may not be the majority but I think the jack is a large enough "niche" that it will absolutely be out there for a long time. In fact I suspect as people get tired of the $200/year (for good bluetooth buds) hamster wheel the jack will actually increase in popularity. But it takes time for all of those bluetooth buds to break down on people, and for people to decide that enough is enough.

I hate the fact that so many manufacturers removed it that I refuse to buy a device like that purely out of principle.

My current device has a user removable battery aswell and seems like EU is going to make it mandatory for new devices so my next device will probably have it too. I can imagine someone saying the same thing about removable battery that you're now saying about the headphone jack. Time will tell.

I use my headphones on multiple devices. Pairing them every time I want to switch is a pain in the ass. Also, my current headphones are still good and will hopefully last for a very long time, as I specifically went after headphones that are study, easy to maintain, and repair. So I have no need for Bluetooth headphones, and I have no desire for Bluetooth headphones. I just want a jack to plug in.

To each their own. There's more to a phone than just if it's physically working and supported with updates. I definitely wouldn't be using an S7 Edge today because phones these days have better cameras, larger displays, better battery life, etc.

I need good pictures for my job. I have an s22 because the wide angle camera is incredibly useful, and I need a stylus from time to time (also for my job).

However, barring a huge leap in wide angle camera, a sharp drop in performance/battery life, I'll run my s22 for as long as it lasts.

If a fairphone with the functionality I need becomes available (in Canada) sometime between now and when I need a new device, I'll switch in a heartbeat.

It will be slow (new soft targets relatedly new he) Many technology improve noticeably on this time frame, für ne camera is important. 5 yars for a top spec phone is the limit for me.

I'm also using a OnePlus 5T (with LineageOS from day 1), and plan to replace it with a Fairphone should it die and there's a good model available with US bands. I'm fine with importing the newest Fairphone should it release by that time, but the Fairphone 4 is also available directly in the US as well.

I think what's impressive here is the first party, OEM support for feature updates on Android lasting as long as it has for this phone. That's really not something you tend to see even on Google's flagships (though security updates are still regular and better than what the Fairphone sees officially).

IMO, smartphones have basically plateaued in the past at least five years - a flagship model from 2015 should be sufficient for basic usage today, assuming the battery and modem hardware was somehow kept up to date and software updates were provided as well, and flagship models from like 2018 onwards were a better deal than today's flagships, providing comparable real-world functionality at a lower price even if the spec sheet pales by comparison. I don't think most other OEMs have the incentives to provide that kind of long-term support on older but still usable hardware, but Fairphone absolutely is.

I recently gave up my 6t for a Pixel7 and it was the worst decision I'd made in awhile. I miss it so much, but the newer OP phones just aren't any good from what I've been reading.

Many things are improved since then. For example cameras.

New os and new apps are done consider relatedly me hw, thew will not work great on an so old one (which was not the absolute top at the release date). I can imagine 5 years, not not 7 die my self.

Well, 7 yaars old fair phone 2 has 2gb of memory and 32 GB of storage. Not enough for my usecases in 2023. Not diving in microusb, BT 4.0, 2420mAh battery and other things.