Fairphone 4 no longer receiving the promised Android 14 update this year

Fairphone beforehand acknowledged that an Android 14 replace for the Fairphone 4 will likely be rolled out someday this fall. Sadly, that’s now not the case, as the corporate revealed that main technical points forestall it from preserving its authentic promise.

In accordance with a Fairphone official, the technical points require the corporate to get in contact with Qualcomm and, hopefully, obtain the much-needed help. In any other case, we’d not see an Android 14 replace for the Fairphone 4 in any respect.

“Sadly, we gained’t be capable to roll out the Android 14 replace for Fairphone 4 customers simply but. There are some points we’ve got run into for which we’ll want Qualcomm’s help on. That is taking a bit longer than we anticipated. Because it stands, we don’t see the replace rolling by in 2024,” explains the Fairphone worker on the company’s forum.

Extra particulars concerning the state of the Fairphone 4 Android 14 replace is not going to be offered till subsequent 12 months, so don’t anticipate any main bulletins till then: “Hopefully, we must always know extra by early subsequent 12 months. We’re actually sorry about this sudden growth, and we’re working around the clock to get it out as quickly as attainable.”

The Fairphone 4 made its debut again in 2021 and was promised a number of years of safety and software program upgrades. Even so, it’s somewhat bizarre to see an Android 14-related announcement whereas most firms have already began to roll out Android 15 upgrades.