Re:Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repai...
by jqpabc123 on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:25AM
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Afair, they started running out of some Fairphone 3 spare parts around 2024
So "longevity" is actually about 5 years. Or less if you live in the USA.
Re:Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repai...
by paimapi on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:16AM
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presumably longer if they were more popular and repair shops stock up on the parts. I assume most FP users are fairly tech savvy and would just purchase multiple components that are more likely to fail as a just-in-case (much like I do for bearings, headlights, and other small parts for my car)
Re:Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repai...
by encom on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:44AM
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That's 5 years longer than Apple.
Re:Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repai...
by generalpf on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:13AM
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With Apple, you can't repair it yourself, but Apple will repair it for much longer than 5 years.
Not even Fairphone can repair your phone if it's out of parts.
Re:Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repai...
by lastofthemojito on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:45AM
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> With Apple, you can't repair it yourself
Generally with Apple, you can: https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair
Fairphone 5 (2023) parts: https://www.fairphone.com/shop/category/spare-parts-4?catego...
Parts for the Fairphone 2 (2015) and Fairphone 3 (2019) aren't available anymore, but I suppose that's not all that surprising after 11 respective 7 years.
Afair, they started running out of some Fairphone 3 spare parts around 2024 and kept the ones they still had for warranty repairs. Source: I own one (and switched to the Fairphone 6 early this year).