Comment on Fairphone 5 - release date and US support??

PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Polymath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So how many years of service is that, that it has been going alright and not giving you issues??
  And are you US-based, and with which provider?

  It looks like it was released it like 2015… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone_2

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  • PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve had it since 2016, so it’s close to 7 years now. I replaced the screen and battery on it, but it has been pretty solid. Actually, uptime is something that’s an advantage for self-repairable stuff: when the screen needed to be replaced, it still worked enough to use, which I did until the replacement arrived. Takes a minute to swap the screen and then it’s running again.

    I’m based in Germany so I only used it in the US when traveling. Maybe the 5 will be the one where they decide to cover the US officially? It seems like there’s more attention to repairability than there was 7 years ago…

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