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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Prediction. Fairphone goes out of business in 3 year due to... lack of demand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They’ve been in business for a couple of years already so they have their stable niche, but yeah the target audience for these devices is rather small.

IIRC they sell a couple hundred thousand phones a year which is a very small operation compared to big makers that can move that volume on a single model within their lineups of dozens of yearly releases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately they don't sell their new version in the US.

So instead of maybe getting a Fairphone 5 as a backup phone, I bought a super cheap Pixel 7a with the Black Friday sale.

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