I would like to know what the oldest phone is on which (one of) the latest Android version runs.
Just to to show that the hardware can still be capable of supporting the software, and why it is so sad that the average Android user buys a new phone every 2 or 3 years.
Give the brand of the phone, the age/year of manufacture and the Android version.
I have a Moto G3, It’s 9 years old and it runs on Android 10. Okay, it doesn´t respond as quick as a new one would, but one can live with that.
Do you earn an older phone with the latest Android version running? Can you beat me?
Add current Android security update support as a requirement, and you have a valid challenge.
Else anybody can rummage through their old phones drawer and dig up devices from stone age which still manage to power up, for which the latest Android version was 2.x or something .
This Galaxy S4 is useded every day too, just without SIM. It has a docking station and is connected to my own nextcloud, as well as several media server, for playing music or control KODI on a TV, so in times it gets heavy usage.
You’re right, but I meant older phones which have one of the latest Android versions, not the Android version which was officially supported. I would leave out security updates; it’s about to show how older phones can still run newer software.
Okay, now you have beaten me by the date of manufacturing and the Android version. Bugger!
Looking at the page on e.foundation, there are only /e/OS versions for devices from 2013 and newer.
Maybe there are unofficial builds of /e/OS for older phones. And what the heck, I would also like to see other OS-es (yes, I know it’s the /e/ forum) which run on older phones.
from 2013, my daily s4mini is running an outdated unofficial /e/OS-R (because 1.5GB /system partition size too small)
when, also from 2013, my other daily s4active, and my spare s4 are both running uptodate official /e/OS-R
from 2012 my Tab2 is limit in term of hardware capacity (1GB RAM) (2x1Ghz CPU), it can run an outdated /e/OS-N or an improvable /e/OS-O (i prefer Linux-PostmarketOS on it)
My daily driver is a mere youngster from 2017, Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact, running IodéOS 4.9 (LOS 20, Android 13 / T) - and looking forward to Android 14 / U sometime soon
Very nice, that one! Unfortunately, I have had too many broken screens, as in parts of the screen become unresponsive to the touch.
So, if one can find a good one, well worth – but R is end of the road at LOS.
At the moment yes. But someone is working on an unofficial LOS 20 ROM for Z3, which has the same kernel & chipset at the Z3 Compact. If they can get LOS 20 going on Z3, then Z3 Compact may not be far behind
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