Dekkia

I guess it would make it way more complicated to use other peoples code if that where the case.

That’s a bold move.

They’d better make sure the phone holds up and doesn’t break within half a year or something.

They both implemented ways to detect each others tags and warn their users.

Afaik that’s as far as it goes.

I had a motorola z3 play a few years ago.

Software quality was pretty good. Security updates were sometimes 3-4 months behind and would combine a few monts when they did get released. When I contacted them about it I was told that not all security patches google issues apply to them. I don’t have a way of verifying that.

With “normal” updates to different Android versions they where also slow, but I guess that’s normal with most Android vendors.

The biggest bummer with that phone was that they killed the module-feature halfway trough it’s livecycle in some regions. (You could snap modules to the back that would add additional stuff like a 360° Camera or a bigger Speaker)

There is an official lineageos build for the z3 play which still gets updated I believe. Even very recent motorola phones get lineageos pretty soon after release. (Not shure tho if that includes all or just the flagships)

Why do we need 24GB of RAM in a Phone again?

OP was asking about the Fairphone. So opening it up to fix or replace something is clearly not off the table.

I’d say “very slow” is overstating it a bit.

It’s not a gaming phone of course, but besides that it’s more than enough for everything else.