Fairphone 5 - The Ars Technica Review

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Fairphone 5 sets a new standard with 8-10 years of Android support
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Outdated hardware isn't really as important on a phone than it is as a PC. Unless you are gaming on your phone, phone hardware is plenty powerful enough these days for the grand majority of tasks.

The software updates are the biggest concern and they intend to do 10 years of updates. That is more than long enough for this device before it becomes obsolete.

I'm running a nearly 10 year old laptop and its fine too.

And it will only get better as technology starts to plateau. They will stay relevant for longer.

as technology starts to plateau

Not sure we'll ever hit that point tbh.

Fair, but I meant more along the lines of what the everyday user will need. After a certain point, what more do you really need on a phone or standard PC? Sure, servers and supercomputers can always take more, but for the average consumer is it really that useful?