Been looking at the Fairphone 6 and damn, support until 2033? That’s actually insane.
The whole replaceable parts thing is pretty sick too. Battery goes bad? Just swap it instead of dropping $800 on a new phone or getting the battery replaced for $100
Probably gonna throw /e/OS on it too because why not.
What’s everyone else using? Anyone actually have experience with Fairphone or am I just getting hyped over nothing?
I have a few major gripes about the Fairphone 6 which otherwise looks like an awesome phone. It costs an extra $200 in the US. So it’s a midrange phone made out of plastic for $900. Really difficult to justify that unless you have a ton of disposable income. Then you can only use it on T-Mobile. While it’s awesome that parts are easily replaced, I wish there was a way to upgrade over time. I’d imagine those parts will cost more in the US as well.
T Mobile and their partnership with Starlink make this a hard no for me.
Which, also semi-related-unrelated Delta airlines signed up for MuskratLink as well.
T-Mobile also cozied up to the Mango 1.0 admin and Shit Pai to get the Sprint merger through and hoard great 5G spectrum in the Legere era, so they’ve been aligning with Fascism for quite a while.
One will find though, that most business will align with a garbage regime for the profits, so the best thing to do is spend as little money with these companies as possible, while admitting in the case of utilities, one can’t truly quit them completely.
Trump’s tariffs likely contribute significantly to that added cost.
Yep. Might make it really expensive then…if it doesn’t change in a day.
Thats sadly a US problem, I live in the EU and can buy it for maybe 680USD. If the price is the biggest problem for you then that’s great news about the phone
Yeah, if I lived in Europe it’d be almost a no brainer. Although the lack up upgrade path without buying a completely new phone is still kind of a bummer. I’ve had my iPhone for 3 years and never needed anything with it repaired. By the time something in this phone does break, I’ll likely be due for an upgrade anyway. Wish I could buy a Fairphone and slowly upgrade the parts so I would no longer be tied to an upgrade cycle. To me that’s way more attractive than a highly repairable phone.