https://www.fairphone.com/en/2024/09/04/how-much-ram-does-your-smartphone-need/
Couldn’t find another decent link in that wasn’t written in Dutch, but you’ll find it at the bottom of the story.
Besides the storage and RAM, nothing else has changed.
Framework uses high end SOCs. And doesn’t have to write as much code to make it all work ootb. Fairphone has to choose an SOC that will be supported by manufacturer for as long as possible since they’re on the hook for supporting the fairphone for so long. Only SOCs that are supported long term are designed for industrial/enterprise type use
Fairphone should try to get their hands on Google’s SoC and board support package. Perhaps a special deal. That’ll get them long software support without any special SoC engineering. Just improve the high level Android apps and sell parts. This would let them be closer to what Framework is. Framework writes almost no software for their hardware.