Android Open Source Project userspace code runs on any devices with Treble. That means it runs on any certified Android devices with the ability to install another OS. Updates and security features for the Linux kernel, drivers, firmware and hardware are still needed.
Fairphone 5 and earlier have end-of-life Linux kernel branches without security support. Those lag multiple years behind on providing full Android security updates. The 1-2 month delays for partial security backports is compared to the Android security bulletins and is actually a much longer delay compared to when the patches are made available to ship by OEMs.
> they also compare the security to the "Android Open Source Project" as if it's a real thing
It is very much a real thing. You can build AOSP from sources and install it on a phone. Many Android devices run that (e.g. drone controllers).
> Is certainly much better than my Samsung flagship
Oh yeah, that's for sure. To share my experience, in terms of updates for me it has been GrapheneOS >>> Stock Android > /e/OS. I was running LineageOS/Cyanogen a decade ago but I don't remember and it was a different time anyway.
Fairphone's updates are definitely much worse than recent Samsung flagships. It's the other way around to an extreme. Samsung does monthly security patches for their flagships and includes a large subset of security preview patches. It's not as good as GrapheneOS security preview releases but they're ahead of the Android security bulletins.
Fairphone is 1-2 months behind the Android security bulletins which are themselves 2-4 months behind the security preview patches. Fairphone takes a year to port to a new OS version shortly after launch and then ends up taking increasingly more time.
No you can't, AOSP doesn't even include a functional keyboard not a functional call manager nowadays. And I'm not even talking about the firmware side of things
Sure that might be enough for very basic hardware like your drone controller example but not a phone
Android Open Source Project userspace code runs on any devices with Treble. That means it runs on any certified Android devices with the ability to install another OS. Updates and security features for the Linux kernel, drivers, firmware and hardware are still needed.
Fairphone 5 and earlier have end-of-life Linux kernel branches without security support. Those lag multiple years behind on providing full Android security updates. The 1-2 month delays for partial security backports is compared to the Android security bulletins and is actually a much longer delay compared to when the patches are made available to ship by OEMs.
[flagged]
> they also compare the security to the "Android Open Source Project" as if it's a real thing
It is very much a real thing. You can build AOSP from sources and install it on a phone. Many Android devices run that (e.g. drone controllers).
> Is certainly much better than my Samsung flagship
Oh yeah, that's for sure. To share my experience, in terms of updates for me it has been GrapheneOS >>> Stock Android > /e/OS. I was running LineageOS/Cyanogen a decade ago but I don't remember and it was a different time anyway.
Fairphone's updates are definitely much worse than recent Samsung flagships. It's the other way around to an extreme. Samsung does monthly security patches for their flagships and includes a large subset of security preview patches. It's not as good as GrapheneOS security preview releases but they're ahead of the Android security bulletins.
Fairphone is 1-2 months behind the Android security bulletins which are themselves 2-4 months behind the security preview patches. Fairphone takes a year to port to a new OS version shortly after launch and then ends up taking increasingly more time.
No you can't, AOSP doesn't even include a functional keyboard not a functional call manager nowadays. And I'm not even talking about the firmware side of things
Sure that might be enough for very basic hardware like your drone controller example but not a phone
Well then you install apps.
1 reply →