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my mum bought a fairphone 3 about 5 years ago and is extremely happy with it, so far she's gone through one usb-c port and one battery. it looks and feels exactly like a normal phone but it pops open with just 4 screws. helping her fix it has taught me that phone manufacturers could make repairable phones easily and they all just choose not to

The situation won't improve until some big company goes full "IBM PC" thing with open AT, ISA, VESA, etc tier standards for phones.

This phone is better just because you can open the case. Spare parts are still provided by a single company. Not a big step ahead.

Better than nothing though...

If it supported GrapheneOS I would be using one too.

I want GrapheneOS more than repairability, personally. I hope the Fairphone + GrapheneOS combination is possible some day...

Wow. Two FP posts in a night. Paste of my comment.

Faiphone is being frog marched out of Australia. Each telco is shutting it down and blocking IMEIs. Sucks for the people that imported them.

Cant even use it as data only. So unless you use it as puerly on WiFi it's going to landfill. 😔.

It all boils down to drivers, if those are not open source (and they usually are not), then phone upgradability depends on them

I recently moved from an iPhone 11 Pro to a Fairphone (Fairphone Gen 6), and it’s been a genuinely great change.

It’s made me realise how little I actually use most of the features you end up paying extra for in flagship phones. Because of that, I’m really looking forward to keeping this device for five years or more.

The only thing I occasionally miss is camera quality especially at concerts or when travelling but it’s a small trade-off rather than a deal-breaker. I’d love to see future Fairphone models improve on this.

Hopefully, Fairphone helps set a trend as more people start looking for products that are ethically sourced, repairable and built to last.

Has anyone tried loading KDE Plasma Mobile onto one of these?

Well they finally delivered a decent camera. That's what made me buy one. It's a step down from a Pixel 8 Pro but not a huge one.

I really value the camera on my phone, since it is essentially my main camera and I enjoy taking pictures. I might rather lean into graphene-ing this pixel than a fair phone, unfortunately. But probably not purchase a future pixel, since they abandoned the physical SIM slot

I replaced the power button and battery on my android phone. Managed to fix it by watching YouTube tutorials.

I've been running a Fairphone 6 for about 6 months now and it's by far the buggiest phone I've ever used. I'd love to keep using it until the security updates stop but it's already such a miserable experience already I can't imagine how bad it'll be in a few years time.

I've been using a Fairphone 4 for a couple weeks, and I like it so far. This is the way phones should be made. I eventually found replacements for most of my Google stuff. It's just sad that my government burned our bridges with trade, so any replacement parts I import will be expensive.

I am leaning toward Fairphone to replace my Apple.

I'm interested in this brand and their Gen 6. I kind of wish I was in the market for a phone. Unfortunately I bought a used Pixel 6 three years ago and everything is just fine with it 😄