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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)
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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a great thing, and I hope the industry (with motivation by EU) will follow a trend towards repairability and sustainability. However I think the most sustainable way is buying used devices.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately you need something with long firmware and software support. Qualcomm is your enemy, they stop updating the firmware of their chips after about two years and that's why android phones often stop getting updates less than 2 years after you buy them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's true. I use LineageOS to get at least OS updates, but firmware is definitely problematic. I just wished mobile hardware would be more generic like in Desktop PCs, that would solve a lot of problems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Let's go back to thicc boi phones like the 80s and we could have some pretty sick homebrew options

Or hell, why not a modern bucket phone? Build it out in a box with a Bluetooth headset and 3.5mm passthrough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We need a phone equivalent of the 80's BIOS wars.

But it's not in anyone's best interest to spend the resources to develop a standardized hardware interface. Though at this point you'd think it would be straightforward to use UEFI.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

they're selling refurbished FP4s now but yeah, buy used phones, or at least B-stock.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Used devices still break and end in landfills, though, used might be better than new for carbon output today, but repairable is gonna win out in that regard long term

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

even better, a used repairable phone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Hopefully in the future repairable and used can go hand in hand! Those are not mutually exclusive attributes.