This Part Of The FairPhone Isn't Repairable...?

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- This is the Fairphone 5, Fairphone's latest and greatest addition to their repairable line of devices. This phone is quickly becoming one of my favourites- due to its repairability, transparency and ethical sourcing of minerals & materials to build the phone. Fairphone continues to impress me and this phone is no exception, with some pretty notable improvements over the Fairphone 4 I think all the hype is justified. But why is the Fairphone missing some aspects of repairability and is the price tag on this device justified? That's what we explore in this video.

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[SWOhioSpeedtesting]

I don’t think it was fair to check the phone like this so much at Customs.

[thedumbstuff]

Fairphone reminds me of Frameworks, the company making their laptops’ components replaceable.
I don’t see why Fairphone couldn’t do the same Frameworks do for laptops, whatsoever. It’d be amazing.

[ADFaried]

I love idea of swappable parts. Maybe in Fairphone 6, they could make the option for users that wants to upgrade to buy the phone with certain parts empty such as the speaker or the charging port and the user can just transfer those components from their older phone

[Alfadrottning]

According to the very transparent listing of costs ... the Fairphone costs that much, because that is what it should cost ... and you should rather wonder, why other phones cost so little. Where do they save money? (unethical working conditions, non ecologically sourced materials, etc. ) - If Samsung or Apple were as fair as the Fairphone, they would go for over 2k ... but - they are not, soo...

[tofunmifamuwagun]

The reasons why swapping the cameras and most other parts between the fairphone 5 and 4 not working is most likely the chipset/cpu, if it has different CPU’s it’s unlikely it’ll every work like that

[E-hab]

The SoC is "future proof" because this SoC is an industrial grade or type that has a longer time of firmware support.

[Gunz]

Can't believe customs beat you to the unboxing

[LcFan]

its nice to see phones like this. now get some more rubber geskets in between some parts and youll have a more resistent and not much more dissicult to repair phone with better audio quality

[stijnvanbrummelen]

In the markets they sell it in, it is as expensive as an iPhone 13, which are both around 700 euros. The iPhone 15 is about 900 euros, the 14 800.

[Thesfanchannel]

Just came across this video and all I can is wow, its about time we had a phone that can be repaired easily and if one part goes, just replace that one. I hope Fairphone makes Its way to CAPE town South Africa go into debt to have this phone. Merry Christmas guys.

[silvanpaul]

I own this phone and i had a blast from the beginning. People hating on the camera are kinda right but also kinda wrong. the camera is great if you know how to use it. It's good enough for normal pictures just don't expect the Samsung zoom on these phones. Sony camera modules are great and fairphone is still improving software wise to improve the picture quality.

The chip is future proof due to being able to run for a long time. These chips are actually not designed for phones but for robots and other oit devices that need a longer life span. Many companies have to drop support for phones due to qualcomm not pushing updates to a deprecated SOC. Fairphone eliminated that issue by choosing for a chip that gets supported with updates for more years to come(because the SOC of these chips get longer support). hence the longer support they can promise you for your phone.

The phone performs well think of it as a 2021 flagship and your good. The phone isn't the flashiest and the newest compared to your s23 or iphone. but it will do the job just fine.

Software runs well and gets improved by the month. You can really see how they put lots of effort in to this phone compared to other brands (cough samsung cough).

The repairability is also a great bonus ofcourse.

Feeling wise the phone feels like an iPhone 12 and or up.
You can actually see some similarities in the camera app and in the way this phone has been designed.
E/os ran from day one so that will make it even feel more like an actual iPhone for our fanboys out there.

The phone is a bit on the heavier side with rounded edges and a somewhat thicker feel that you only notice at the start (which didn't matter to me because many of us actually knew how chunky a phone used to be).

Long story short: I'd recommend this phone if you like a phone that's quick enough for all of your apps and games(on medium settings).

[govind_qcrp]

the chip had something to do with security updates. its an enterprise chip, so qualcomm supports it for longer.
i saw this on some other youtube channel a while back.

[justaguy]

Fairfone says its future proof because the chip they use is a commercial grade chip rather than a consumer chip. Commercial chips get upgrades for longer from qualcomm because its not expected commercial consumer to replace devices regularly. Consumer grade chips get replaced at a much higher frequency, so qualcomm just does not bother supporting them for as long.

[NonLegitNation]

I actually thought one of the main draws for this phone was the ability to upgrade individual components instead of having to buy a whole new phone. I could have sworn Fairphone touted that claim at some point but I guess I was wrong. It sucks that you can't upgrade the parts individually between phones, and while being able to repair the phone easily is nice it would have been even nicer if they went to the extent of making upgradable parts. I was actually planning on buying a used Fairphone 4 and just buying parts for the Fairphone 5 and installing them, but it's a good thing I didn't do that.

[Masterplan]

An easily replaced USB C port and a OLED Screen? Count me in!

[SPARTAN_Cayde-]

Funny how 10 years ago pretty much most of phones were this easy to repair… My Nokia Lumia 830 for example is just held together with screws. It has a user replacable 2000 mAh battery and even Qi wireless charging, its a semi flagship phone from 2014. Its bigger brother the 930 in the other hand was not so easy to fix with a glued chassis…

[DeekNBohls]

For a manufacturer that prides on longevity and repairability, it's funny how they produce iterations of their phone every w years. It's better if instead, they release upgrades to the components on their current phone. And release iterations every 4 years or so or at least, let people swap out components from older to newer iterations vice versa

[darkpegasus]

I think making parts swappable/upgradable would also require fairphone to include a firmware to flash so the phone actually works with the upgraded part. Some parts would work without requiring that like speaker and charging port and some parts might be hard if not possible like display screen.

[AnimilesYT]

A cost analysis has been performed on this phone, and it turns out that this phone has a very fair price.
Compared to other phones it seems to be very expensive for the quality you're getting, but this isn't because the Fairphone is actually expensive. It is purely because other manufacturers abuse many people as well as the planet in order to keep their phones profitable when they sell them way too cheaply.

The analysis also looked at the sustainability impact of the repairable elements since it uses more materials, and the impact is tiny and it's offset by the benefits it brings for longevity.

[simonkarlsson]

I have repaired many mobiles and brands that use different screws for everything but this looks very easy