I thought of it, my main focus was on major social problems with the high influence and an almost monopolistic market position of Google and its dominant product Android OS,…
Fairphone B.V. has so far released three models of its Fairphone. The company exists since January 2013, a good seven years. The goal of the company is to produce durable,…
Most smartphones use chips with the architecture Advanced RISC Machines, or ARM for short. ARM issues licenses to the chip manufacturers who produce chips based on this architecture. In order…
In addition to the device-specific ROMS, Google has introduced so-called GSIs, Generic System Images with Project Treble in Android 8 or Oreo. The compatibility of the images to the individual…
Security Updates With the security updates, Google has been delivering patches to smartphone manufacturers on a monthly cycle since 2015. It is then up to the manufacturers to incorporate them…
Risks As with almost all interventions in complex systems, there are also risks involved in flashing modified software and firmware that must be taken into account. Root access Rooting or…
Planned obsolescence Obsolescence describes the process of a device becoming unusable for its original functionality, usually caused by aging, often abbreviated as EOL, End of Life. In the case of…
