I’ve been watching the Fairphone closely but while I love the idea of a phone designed to last eight years, the price tag is still too high to make it worth buying for me. Since I don’t mind having an older phone, I think I’m still better off buying three decent used phones in succession for about the same total price. By the time I get to the third one in 5 years, it’ll be significantly superior to the then five-year-old Fairphone.
I suppose folks particularly enthusiastic about fair trade and environmentalism might be more interested than I am, but from my perspective as someone who just wants a robust phone for a good price, discarding and replacing still makes more sense than repairing.
As an environmentalist myself, the fairphone is amazing. However, it’s far more ecologically friendly to keep the phone you have until you absolutely have to replace it
right. I mean, good for them, but $600 for one phone is just way, way too expensive.
my phone cost me less than $100 second-hand three years ago and it’s still perfectly usable. it’s a budget model with several LineageOS ROMs available, so I’m good with software support. the battery isn’t like new but this was a 5000 mAh model to begin with, so even diminished it’s still good enough. I don’t see me upgrading in the next couple of years.
I’ve been watching the Fairphone closely but while I love the idea of a phone designed to last eight years, the price tag is still too high to make it worth buying for me. Since I don’t mind having an older phone, I think I’m still better off buying three decent used phones in succession for about the same total price. By the time I get to the third one in 5 years, it’ll be significantly superior to the then five-year-old Fairphone.
I suppose folks particularly enthusiastic about fair trade and environmentalism might be more interested than I am, but from my perspective as someone who just wants a robust phone for a good price, discarding and replacing still makes more sense than repairing.
As an environmentalist myself, the fairphone is amazing. However, it’s far more ecologically friendly to keep the phone you have until you absolutely have to replace it
Which is exactly what Fairphone says.
The reason it is expensive is because it uses fair trade materials.
You are essentially paying to not use slave labour on your phone.
right. I mean, good for them, but $600 for one phone is just way, way too expensive.
my phone cost me less than $100 second-hand three years ago and it’s still perfectly usable. it’s a budget model with several LineageOS ROMs available, so I’m good with software support. the battery isn’t like new but this was a 5000 mAh model to begin with, so even diminished it’s still good enough. I don’t see me upgrading in the next couple of years.