This has never happened before: The 6-year-old Fairphone 2 has received an OS update. True, this is Android 10

Fairphone 2 smartphone released in back in 2015, but in spite of what has passed for 6 years, the manufacturer continues to support it.

What does it mean?

Dutch modular phone manufacturer Fairphone has announced the beginning of the distribution of a major update of the operating system for Fairphone 2. True, the device will not receive Android 12 or Android 11 as well 10th Android version. In addition, so far it is only beta version... They promise to release stable firmware in early 2022. When that happens, Fairphone 2 will be the first Android smartphonewho will receive software updates for 7 years. AND it's really impressive.

Our 6-yr-old Fairphone 2 is being upgraded to Android 10. That’s 7 years of software support! An industry first for an Android device! Together with the open source community we built the operating system. Proving it is possible to put sustainability at the heart of tech. pic.twitter.com/TuUjJWTi5J

- Fairphone (@Fairphone) November 23, 2021

Fairphone 2 was announced in 2015 since Android 5.1 Lollipop as well later received updates to Android 6 Marshmallow, Android 7.1 Nougat and Android 9 Pie. By the way, he is also unique in that it has a modular design (as, in fact, and the rest of Fairphone's creations), so make repairs and replace the necessary parts with it is as easy as shelling pears.

In addition, on this week starts beta testing Android 11 for Fairphone 3 (2019 model) and Fairphone 3+ (2020 Model).

A source: Fairphone