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  1. It’s 8 apparently
  2. 5 years is as long as most phones that I used last so there would be no point to buy it
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Fair wages for the people making the phone is also a selling point of this phone. It’s not just about repairability.

That said I’m also not writing this from a Fairphone, because the price is too high for me.

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That may be true but how are they guaranteeing this on a component level? As far as I know, they use off the shelf stuff so they only have assembly wages. And that doesn’t justify the price imo.

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The high price actually cancels the point of the repairability. I can get a similar phone for easily €400-500 less. If I budget that extra price for repairs, I can get the battery and screen replaced quite a few times.

I say that as an FP4 owner, who did the same calculation mistake there.

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How fast do you need your phone to be for sending messages, streaming video, or browsing the web? Every phone made in the last decade can do these things.

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Let’s see. There is still no Android 13 on the FP4.

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At least CalyxOS, DivestOS offer Android 13 builds for FP4 (and obviously LineageOS, but it doesn’t have OTA updates, afaik)

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