I've been meaning to get a Fairphone for a while. Would you (or anyone else here) recommend it?

Not an owner, but at work nearly half the devs rocking Android have Fairphones and everyone happy. The only downer for me is that it's a bit bulky.

Oh, thanks! I don't think that's gonna be a problem for me.

Only if you dont need a camera, its really bad for its pricepoint.

Oh, good to know! That seems very real but I don't use it that much and it'll still gonna be a good upgrade for me.

Not officially available in the US, which usually means US buyers should really stay away.

IMO not having official carrier support is not worth any amount of fairness.

Just as a curiosity, why? Do official carrier support matter that much in the US?

I don't care about official carrier support. I do care about supported bands and warranty.

Beyond simple support for your carrier's specific cellular bands, a lot of smartphone functionality is tied into the carrier's implementation/integration with your phone.

Apple keeps a list of supported carrier features on this page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204039

This used to be more of a problem ~5-7 years ago or so. I'd buy an obscure Android phone and I couldn't use things like Visual Voicemail, Voice over LTE, or WiFi Calling.

Verizon used to be and may still be picky about which phones they activate as well. My Nexus 5X supported all the bands required to work with Verizon, but they refused to activate the phone on their network, despite ordering a plain SIM card for BYOD.

Only think making me hesitate to buy a Fairphone is the fact that the quality seems low for the price. I understand why that is, but I worry it would feel like too much of a downgrade coming from a Galaxy S10, and particularly if the whole idea is that it lasts a long time, how out of date will it feel in a few years time?

Do you have one, and if so does it feel reasonably snappy?

Feels reasonably snappy, but then again I always picked up midrange phones in the past.

You really have to be sure that you want a Fairphone for their ethics. Display and camera are particularly very much not great. My past Nexus 5X made much better photos (not sure how much it's just Google's camera app processing at play).

And also if you're not in the EU I would definitely avoid getting one as there's gonna be a lot of hassle with warranty shipments.