With five major OS ugrades and eight years of patches.

Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

  • @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•9 months ago

    You mean FP2 parts? I could have gotten them only from the Fairphone community. But I spent some time waiting for an opportunity where we would have met anyways, and I found no battery replacement, because tjat was the first component in most FP2s to fail (apart from a Display problem which was early on though and fixed under warranty)

      • @axo@feddit.deEnglish
        9•9 months ago

        But tgats stupid, since no manufacturer has parts available for that long. And fairphone released an update for the FP2 after 8 years of being available. Thats crazy! I think it got out around the same time as the Samsung S3. Try finding a genuine battery for that thing.

        And also the FP1 and FP2 were sold in really low quantities. The FP3 was the first proper product, which therefor has much better support and will have parts available for much longer

        • @systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          That’s a fair perspective, but that is also not what I consider “sustainable” as they themselves claim to be. I fail to see how that is stupid, stupid is calling ones company sustainable, when it’s not ten years down the line.

          Trust already broken.

          • @axo@feddit.deEnglish
            2•9 months ago

            Well, android itself is only 15 years old. To put that into perspective.

            But yes, I would also be hella mad if they stopped supporting the FP4 or FP5 after “only” 8 or 10 years.