I tried the new Fairphone, a phone designed to be repaired
vismit2000
20 points
8 comments
September 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
ktallett
The issue I found was that you couldn't replace every single part of the phone, and also they never did the actual upgrade components that was promised. Instead just making more phones which in my view goes against the point.
lazzurs
If this came with GrapheneOS and had the updates on time I'd buy in a heartbeat.
altern8
That's a big phone...
sombragris
A big letdown for me is the lack of a headphone jack.
d3Xt3r
Too bad that the OS isn't designed to be repaired. It would've been nice if they could partner up with postmarketOS or similar and ship a proper Linux distro, so we're free to customise/build/update/replace parts of the OS.