Fairphone has retained top marks for repairability, with the Dutch manufacturer’s fifth iteration scoring high for software longevity, even if some components are starting to get a little more “conventional.”
The iFixit team pulled apart the latest in the line of modular phones with little more than tweezers and screwdrivers and found the device just as repairable as its predecessors, albeit with one or two compromises.
However, rather than something along the lines of the Core Module of the previous phone, the iFixit team found a motherboard and daughterboard more akin to other Android handsets.
Though it comes with the fastest industrial chip (not a Snapdragon) made by Qualcomm, that puts it squarely in the mid-range rather than rubbing shoulders with more exotic devices.
Fairphone promises five Android version upgrades and at least eight years of security updates, with an aim for a total lifespan of a decade.
Considering the glue-filled horrors out there, combining software longevity with something that has retained much of its predecessors’ modular and repairable design is an impressive feat.
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Fairphone has retained top marks for repairability, with the Dutch manufacturer’s fifth iteration scoring high for software longevity, even if some components are starting to get a little more “conventional.”
The iFixit team pulled apart the latest in the line of modular phones with little more than tweezers and screwdrivers and found the device just as repairable as its predecessors, albeit with one or two compromises.
However, rather than something along the lines of the Core Module of the previous phone, the iFixit team found a motherboard and daughterboard more akin to other Android handsets.
Though it comes with the fastest industrial chip (not a Snapdragon) made by Qualcomm, that puts it squarely in the mid-range rather than rubbing shoulders with more exotic devices.
Fairphone promises five Android version upgrades and at least eight years of security updates, with an aim for a total lifespan of a decade.
Considering the glue-filled horrors out there, combining software longevity with something that has retained much of its predecessors’ modular and repairable design is an impressive feat.
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