Roughly how long will it take the fairphone 6 to reach the level of support the fairphone 4 is at now?
I’m debating getting one to tinker with
Depends on what you mean by level of support. If you mean hardware, it will never get USB3 or display out. This will make it less attractive as a linux phone, which means it will get less support from the tinkerers.
If you mean community support, after reading a few topics on the Fairphone forums, probably never. To put it in perspective, I know I wouldn’t accept a hypothetical free FP5 to FP6 upgrade.
Impossible to say unless you want to do it yourself 😅
The basic Linux kernel patches will be in the next release, and then it depends on when the mobile Linux distros upgrade the kernel.
But I think entusiasm for the FP6 is relatively low in the mobile Linux space, as they removed usb3 and display out from the hardware. I suspect the FP5 will remain the best supported one.
@poVoq @matterofact yep. Very poor choice to drop DisplayPort feature. Basically, you loose convergence. I was betting on a Linux phone that I can leave my laptop at home and convert my phone into one. Fairphone 5 will remain ahead still.
That’s interesting. I thought the return to a more typical snapdragon chip might make it more popular than the 5
The FP5 SoC is a industrial IoT chip, so there is actually longer term support from Qualcomm which is IMHO better for Linux use.
Interesting, I thought it might be more complicated to develop for but idk what I’m talking about when it comes to that 😅
@matterofact @poVoq to be honest it will make it more popular amongst normies. Especially given that Android is a pathetic experience as a desktop, so they would not care about it. However, amongst Linux enthusiasts won’t be as popular.
Apparently Android 16 improved desktop experience a lot by back porting some of the Samsug Dex features.
