In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?
You have obviously not seen the phone, you open up the backside to remove the battery and then you have 6 screws for the part I wanted to swap (just like you can do with back camera ram and so many things) put the new one in and screwed it back. They also offer 5 years warranty for anything you don’t want to change yourself or if there’s a bigger problem.
if you take care of your phone then it will be electronic waste because cell towers don’t support it anymore before it actually breaks.
Your phone will literally turn to rust before your charging port should break from use. A glass screen should never scratch unless you carry lose diamonds in your pocket.
Your comment makes literally no sense in any way. A port can break really easily and why is a phone rusting a benchmark for you? Why did you bring up the screen? Do you know anything about phones?
Humidity, heat changes, and oxidizstion is literally the only thing that should kill a phone nowadays, usb c last for 50 years of normal charging, screens are practically indestructible.
There is no reason your phone should break before cell towers stop supporting it.
If you want hardware assembly get a few old notebooks that would be thrown away either way. Kids tend to break stuff when learning and I don’t think you’d want them to do that to an actual phone that is intended for further use.
A Laptop is also much larger than the phones and there are more components to learn about and play around with.
Good plan. I actually got them one of those really cheap pinebooks a couple of years back but their mom said they needed a windows laptop so I got to keep it. Might give it now anyway.
Doubt.
I’m betting hours including watching the tutorial.
You have obviously not seen the phone, you open up the backside to remove the battery and then you have 6 screws for the part I wanted to swap (just like you can do with back camera ram and so many things) put the new one in and screwed it back. They also offer 5 years warranty for anything you don’t want to change yourself or if there’s a bigger problem.
If I wanted I could stop typing right now, turn my phone around and have that usb C port replaced within 5 minutes.
Have done it before on my boyfriend’s fairphone 4 and no doubt your average user could do it within half a hour.
That’s also the case for any phone.
if you take care of your phone then it will be electronic waste because cell towers don’t support it anymore before it actually breaks.
Your phone will literally turn to rust before your charging port should break from use. A glass screen should never scratch unless you carry lose diamonds in your pocket.
What the fuck are you on about?
Your comment makes literally no sense in any way. A port can break really easily and why is a phone rusting a benchmark for you? Why did you bring up the screen? Do you know anything about phones?
Humidity, heat changes, and oxidizstion is literally the only thing that should kill a phone nowadays, usb c last for 50 years of normal charging, screens are practically indestructible.
There is no reason your phone should break before cell towers stop supporting it.
it just isnt.
Good luck getting the back off most modern phones without a heatgun and replacement adhesive
Would this phone be a good introduction to hardware assembly for kids? Kinda like legos?
If you want hardware assembly get a few old notebooks that would be thrown away either way. Kids tend to break stuff when learning and I don’t think you’d want them to do that to an actual phone that is intended for further use.
A Laptop is also much larger than the phones and there are more components to learn about and play around with.
My two cents.
Good plan. I actually got them one of those really cheap pinebooks a couple of years back but their mom said they needed a windows laptop so I got to keep it. Might give it now anyway.