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Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence (www.ifixit.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9491179

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys' opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

We talked about this a while back. Curious if people's thoughts have changed since then on the Fairphone 5.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  1. Charging
  2. Companies keep shoving Bluetooth headphones down our throats, which are causing huge amounts of ewaste as the batteries are irreplaceable.
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Point 2 is incredibly frustrating. That the ewaste problem has become so much better understood and yet the trend is to keep creating more of it.

    I think Pine64 is making Bluetooth earbuds, but like their other stuff it aims to be super hackable and fixable. Wish that was the norm instead of solvent welding.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tell this to apple. They're incredibly frustrating to replace yourself, if you even do so.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Absolutely. I've seen plenty of devices where self-repair was an "eh" afterthought at best.

    Apple offensively attacks your attempts to fix the thing you purchased yourself with your own hard-earned money. They're positively evil.

    Which is why it's so annoying watching all the other mainstream companies feel compelled to just ape them in every way.

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