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- Fairphone has responded to OnePlus’s comments on why the latter didn’t match Google and Samsung’s seven-year promise for updates.
- OnePlus said seven years of updates don’t matter if the user experience was bad, adding that the battery might not last.
- Fairphone responded by saying that OnePlus and others should make their batteries replaceable and offer more repairable designs.
OnePlus recently explained why the company doesn’t match Google and Samsung by offering seven years of updates. Now, Fairphone has taken umbrage with OnePlus’s explanation.
“Some manufacturers are now saying that the filling in their sandwich — their phone’s software — will still be good to eat in seven years’ time,” OnePlus president Kinder Liu said in a recent Tom’s Guide interview.