5-year-old Fairphone 2 is about to receive a major update to Android 9

Yes, it's old, but the handset has been supported for much longer than the big dogs usually manage

If it's not the battery, it's the software. Phones can have a brief shelf-life and the road from cutting edge to obsolete is short. Bucking that trend is Fairphone, which is about to start rolling out Android 9 to its Fairphone 2 model, first released more than five years ago....