Buy an iPhone and you might get some sort of official support for software updates for up to 5 years. Get a Google Pixel and you get 3 years of support. Purchase almost any other phone and you’ll be lucky to get more than a year or two of updates. PostmarketOS is an ambitious effort […]
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PostmarketOS inches closer to letting you breathe new life into old phones
Most smartphones are designed to be used for a few years and then replaced. But earlier this year a team of developers announced plans for a new operating system called postmarketOS that you could install on older phones to keep using them for years to come. The goal is to give phones a 10-year lifecycle. […]
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Linux-based postmarketOS project aims to give smartphones a 10-year lifecycle
Buy an iPhone and you might get 4-5 years of official software updates. Android phones typically get 1-3 years of updates… if they get any updates at all. But there are ways to breathe new life into some older Android phones. If you can unlock the bootloader, you may be able to install a custom […]