The modular mobile phone that Google failed to make was actually made by this small factory

Let me ask you a question first: If you had a budget of more than 5,000 yuan, what kind of mobile phone would you buy? One thing is that with this budget, you can basically buy the flagship phones of all major brands. You may not have enough money to buy their super-large flagships, but it is absolutely appropriate to buy a medium-sized or large-sized flagship.

Mobile phones at this price range often have sufficient configurations such as performance and imaging. Even if the phone has no bright spots in terms of configuration, it will make up for it in terms of design or functionality.

For example, if you put a thermal imager directly on your mobile phone, it can directly take pictures of any heating objects within 500 meters...

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Recently, Tony bought such a special mobile phone. Its configuration parameters are mediocre, almost at the level of a thousand-yuan phone. But it was sold for 699 euros, equivalent to RMB 5,479.

And its main selling points are environmental protection, sustainability and fairness. Can you believe it? !

Originally, I thought that this Fairphone 5, named "Fair Phone", was just like the "Free Phone" Liberty Phone that I just introduced a while ago and sold for 16,000, it was an abstract gadget.

To put it bluntly, it is cutting leeks by selling concepts. The former focuses on fairness and environmental protection, while the latter focuses on American manufacturing, independent control, The product itself is not important, what is sold is a feeling~TAGPH 32

However, after I carefully browsed its details page, I found this fair phone, and it seemed to be genuine.

Why do you say that?

We all know that among today’s smartphones, the system support cycle provided by Apple for the iPhone is relatively long. The iPhoneXS released in 2018 can be upgraded to the latest iOS17:

However, the official website of this mobile phone directly states that it supports software updates until 2031. is equivalent to providing us with a full 8 years of system updates . 8 years is enough for us to finish high school and college.

And its update is not just about pushing security patches to the system. Officials have made it clear that it will receive at least 5 Android version updates, which means that there is no big problem for mobile phones to get Android 18.

If I remember correctly, no mobile phone manufacturer has made such a guarantee before, and the pattern has opened up! The key point is that it really does this.

When the Fairphone 2 was released in 2015, the mobile phone manufacturer from the Netherlands originally planned to provide 3-5 years of updates for this phone, but it ended up supporting it in March this year.

It has been eight years since this phone was released, and Fairphone 1, which was released two years earlier, although the update cycle is not as long as Fairphone 2, it still received four years of support.

As the company’s first-generation product, it is not easy to achieve this level. From this point of view, It’s not impossible to fulfill its eight-year update promise this time, and it’s even uncertain whether it will be extended to ten years~

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After reading this, some friends may think that it is unrealistic to use a mobile phone for 8 years, because the mobile phone may break after three or four years of use.

You don’t have to worry about this, because it provides a five-year warranty. No matter where or from what channel we bought this phone, just register for free on the official website and you can extend the warranty period to 5 years: TAGPH1 0

It doesn’t matter if we accidentally break the phone. Starting from Fairphone2, this series of mobile phones has begun to adopt a modular design, and all parts of the body are not glued together.

This means that we can buy accessories directly from the official website, and then try to repair the phone ourselves . Who would have thought that the modular mobile phone that Google did not make at the beginning was actually made by this small factory!

From the accessories provided on the official website, it is not difficult to see that Fairphone5 supports our independent maintenance of components including but not limited to the screen, battery, camera module, back cover and USB-C charging interface.

It can be said that apart from the motherboard, basically everything else that can be repaired on Fairphone5 can be repaired. Moreover, does not require any professional tools to repair, just use your fingers and a Phillips screwdriver.

Because of this, this phone received the extremely rare 10/10 repairability score from iFixit.

For reference, iPhone14 is rated 7/10, which is the highest score Apple has received since iPhone7. iPhone14 can be regarded as the easiest iPhone to repair in 6 years.

It can be said that as long as you are willing, this mobile phone can truly achieve new things. Three years, three years of old, three more years of sewing, repairing whatever is broken, my mother no longer has to think about buying me a new phone~

And its environmental protection and fairness are reflected in this.

Many components of Fairphone 5 use recycled materials or renewable materials, including the participation of many renewable energy sources in the production and manufacturing process, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions as much as possible.

In addition, for every Fairphone 5 produced, the company will responsibly collect and recycle an equal amount of electronic waste, and provide a living wage bonus of $2.63 to the people who make it.

And the supply chain partners it chooses are all companies that meet social responsibility standards and pay attention to protecting the health and safety of employees, thereby ensuring that employees involved in mobile phone production and manufacturing are treated equally.

Although these sound a bit false, judging from the official information shared on the forum, people are indeed doing this, and it can be seen that this is a relatively real company.

Of course, for environmental reasons, like Apple, it does not provide us with accessories such as chargers and charging cables in the box. The reasons for not providing these accessories are also the same.

To be honest, after looking at it all the way, Fairphone5 did make me a little excited.

Not for anything else, is because of its modular design. If the phone is out of battery, I can directly disassemble it and replace the battery, not to mention that this phone has a vague light of morality and humanity~