It's great that such a phone exists. People should be able buy a Fairphone, or buy an unrepairable iPhone, or whatever phone fits their needs.
The "right to repair" doesn't give people the right to buy a Fairphone. They already have the right. It removes their right to buy other kinds of phone.
Kudos! I thought of buying one but five year old hardware at the price point of a modern high-end was not something I could afford. Maybe once I'm out of university with a job for more than a year, but not now. Kudos for anyone who spends the money on one of those!
My phone is doing just fine. Dropped it multiple times. Didn't submerge it in liquid yet but I doubt that an iPhone would survive that. If you have evidence showing that the Fairphone is less robust than other phones, please share.
The laws of scale will make the Fairphone actually better and cheaper when more are produced (as they always do).
> Didn't submerge it in liquid yet but I doubt that an iPhone would survive that.
Actually, the iPhone 7 is specced to be able to survive up to 30 minutes of submersion in 1m water. iFixit had a demo where it survived 8 hours of submersion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIauEB3EMHY
> If you have evudence showing that the fairphone is less robust than other phone, please share it.
Given that it such a niche product, there isn’t a lot of info available on it. Most manufacturers don’t publish their loss/repair rates, but logic would dictate that more openings and loose connections would give more problems.
Also worth noting is that the Fairphone 2 is worse than the current flagship models on almost all metrics. It seems that this modularity does have its price, after all.
Modularity does have a price; that is fairly trivial. But your original statement was much stronger.
The Fairphone's specs are deliberately not top-of-the-line in order to give users better battery life. This is working spectacularly well as evidenced by the fact that my Fairphone 2 has twice the battery life than any of my iPhones ever had. That and repairability is worth much more to me personally than the possibility to submerge the phone in water. After all it's a phone not diving gear. To each their own, but no need to make overblown statements.
> But your original statement was much stronger ("impossible")
No, my original statement was that waterproofing would be all but impossible, which, unless you have an example of a waterproof modular phone, still stands.
> The Fairphone's specs are deliberately not top-of-the-line in order to give users better battery life.
A handy excuse. Still means you’re getting a slower phone, worse screen, camera, etc.
> That and repairability is worth much more to me than the possibility to submerge the phone in water.
Tell that to the thousands of people who were previously losing their phone to water damage every year.
And it’s not like an iPhone is not repairable, its just that you’ll need Apple to do it for you. A small price to pay for a better product.
