Fairbuds Teardown: Our Highest Scoring Earbuds Ever!

Fairphone just released the most repairable wireless earbuds we’ve seen to date, the aptly named Fairbuds. After years of dealing with glued in and unrepairable design, do we finally have a 10/10 wireless earbud on our teardown table?Let’s find out!

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:14 Replaceable Silicon Tips and Battery Removed
00:32 Board Removal
00:47 Driver Removal
01:01 Charging Case Disassembly
01:04 One Screw and the Battery Is Replaceable
01:16 Modular Motherboard and USB-C Port Removal
01:39 Comparison to Galaxy Buds Live
01:59 Final Thoughts and Score

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[Simat_]

The battery taking like 10 seconds to take out just blew my mind.

[neerkum]

Having such tiny repairable electronic devices is so impressive, bravo to the design team, SO MANY companies should be embarassed and ashamed by this right here.

[dontmindme]

I like how they also sell individual earbuds too. I have never wanted to buy wireless earbuds because I know that it's easy to lose one, which makes the whole set worthless. This is a monumental step compared to the competition.

[vitacell]

Amazing how easy is to replace batteries.

[mutchlouis]

Never thought i would be this happy looking at that battery pop out so easily

[noirknight]

my brains were blown when i saw the batteries being removable

[ld]

People like to sh*t on fairphone for not being able to hang with the big players, but I'm continuously amazed by what they can pull off as such a small company.

[-fazik-]

See - it CAN be done. Others make it harder because they want to sell more units!

[katnax]

I wonder about audio quality and the features, but I really love the idea behind fixable electronics. I'm recieving my framework tommorow, fairphone and fair accessories will come later, but soon.

[radry]

It's crazy to think that it took so long for wireless earbuds to have a removeable battery. Hearing aids which are even smaller have had that literally for decades.

[nich-nkcr]

Fairbuds glues the earbuds in a way that uses the LEAST possible glue to allow it to be certified water resistance.

[Dragontamerz]

I just went to their web page.. The batteries are rechargeable and the replacement batteries are under $15 dollars. Such a deal. On my second set of apples air pods because of the battery. Going to these next. Thanks for the enlightenment.

[Aaron-]

Would love a playlist of all the most repairable electronics!

[Westar.]

This is their most compelling product yet, very interesting!

[almfreak]

This is fantastic. If my current buds ever die I’ll definitely be looking into these!

[mjallenuk]

How it should be ... good job yet again Fairphone!

[anventia]

The battery popping out reminds me of the hearing aids I used to wear (with non-rechargeable but easily changeable batteries), more earbuds should operate like this!

[LexYeen]

Holy _shit._ Guess I know where my next earbuds are coming from.

[Old_School_Pro]

It was my dream to make a company that sells repairable Wired (earphone, headphone, headset) wireless (earphone, headphones, headset, neckband & Tws) Happy to see someone capable for that.

[PotiusSeroQamNumquam]

Wow, very fast. Super excited for these, thank you!