Fairphone will release the Android 12 upgrade for the Fairphone 4 from February 1. It is a phased rollout, although it is not clear how long this will take. The upgrade for the phone was previously planned to be released in December last year.
The company says on its forum that it will release the Android 12 upgrade from February 1, but does not provide further details about the update and what it entails. The upgrade was originally due in December appear, but due to ‘a critical problem related to emergency calls’ this was postponed.
This problem appears to have been resolved, although Fairphone is not yet releasing the update in France and Switzerland. Here there would be ‘performance problems’. Fairphone is still working on the update for these regions and wants to release it soon. In the meantime, the company will release an Android 11 security update for these regions.
The Fairphone 4 is a smartphone which the company released in 2021. According to Fairphone, this was the first ‘zero-waste’ phone where a smartphone is recycled for every unit sold. The phone manufacturer normally supports its phones for years; for example, the Fairphone 2 got another Android update seven years after introduction.
