In what world is a chip from 2014 a half decade old? Most of the phones in that price bracket will be using a Snapdragon 410 or similar.

Hmm…it looks like the Note 3 is actually only 4 years old.

Got a five years old Jolla which still receives updates every other month

That's odd, considering their first phone was launched in stores less than 4 years ago.

In any case, I used to have one too until about 2 weeks ago when it finally broke down (tbh, possibly due to moisture). While it's not odd they still release updates for their phone OS for the only phone they've ever sold to regular customers, I can't brush away GP's point entirely. The hardware is definitely sub-par by now (it wasn't that good to begin with), not to mention the trade-offs made in the construction of the phone (loudspeaker issues are rather common, and my phone started later to have problems with the display back-light, too).

Maybe he is using an android converted to Jolla?

Naye, you could get one in late 2013

…that's less than four years.

My criticism was mainly aimed at Android, which has a tendency to drop support for devices within 1-2 years.

which is why should use Lineage OS.

Not every device has an unlocked bootloader or support in the Lineage OS device tree.

And with 8.0 we will start to see commercial roms with even better and longer support

Source: Paul oBrien