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I was under the impression those were released following a pine64-like model, where the intention is the community designs and supports custom firmware for the buds XL to replace Fairphone's stock firmware?
According to current reverse engineering efforts on the FP forums the buds XL are running some generic Qualcomm firmware (assumedly on a CSR102 series SoC?), which is flashed to the headphones via Fairphone's Fairbuds app
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairbuds-xl-firmware-source-code/105002/12
We will inevitably see how long these are supported for, as I'm planning to get one at some point...
As for the original Fairbuds TWS I have no idea what they were thinking there 🤦♂️ fairtrade plastic doesn't carry much weight if the product is still very likely going to end up as unrecyclable ewaste