The Fairphone 5 is modular, made with recycled & fair materials and fair working conditions. I review the phone, the company behind it, the sustanibilty claims & explain their shortcoming.
He misses the point that companies like Fairphone and Framework and system76 have proven that it’s possible to support devices for a very long time when the bigger manufacturers told us it wasn’t possible, or even if it were possible that there was no market demand for seven years of software support. In 2016, sustainability and longevity were not words associated with new tech. They showed us the way.
Nokia sells a couple of phones with a screwdriver now. Pixel 8 is going to receive updates into the next decade. Lenovo is trying to make 80% of devices repairable, a remarkable pivot from where they were trending. The demand is there and the ability is there. They also made us think about things that we had never considered before in terms of impact, educating us along the way.
If Fairphone folded tomorrow, they left the smartphone market a better place than they entered.
I disagree with citing Framework for now since they’ve only existed for 3 years. They are certainly exciting and genuinely seem to be dedicated to long term support and repairability but in my opinion they need to exist longer than that before they can be cited as example of supporting a device for a very long time.
Even if they shut down today, the parts are out there. You can swap in from a donor laptop in ways that would be impossible for most others. Not to mention the fact that the critical parts are upgradable with standard parts from 3rd parties.
They supported the same hardware upgrade cycle for three full generations.
Even if they don’t keep going forever, they still succeeded in a huge way.
companies like Fairphone and Framework and system76 have proven that it’s possible to support devices for a very long time when the bigger manufacturers told us it wasn’t possible, or even if it were possible that there was no market demand for seven years of software support. In 2016, sustainability and longevity were not words associated with new tech. They showed us the way.
I didn’t see the video with that much attention, but I’m pretty sure at some point he said something along these lines.
For those that have Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-are-fair-phones-really-fair
Now automatic nebula links would be a great addition to piped bot.
Edit: forgot the last word.
It asks to sign in to watch videos. Youtube, for all its fault, at least doesn’t do that.
Right yea, I should clarify
Nebula is a creator owned video platform that’s subscription based instead of having ads and the such. So the link was more for those that have a subscription with Nebula.
Creators get a lot more money on Nebula than on YouTube, so I try to watch it things I’m interested in on Nebula when possible. Sometimes there’s also early releases, better quality, extra content etc. on the Nebula version. So while it’s less accessible, it’s better for the creators, and it doesn’t have a lot of the monetization/demonetization issues that YouTube has. I got an annual subscription on a steep discount a while back
The Fairphone part of that review is great but it also includes a lot of Greenwashing from short term garbage producers like Apple and Samsung in a very uncritical way, I can recommend it as a Fairphone review but be aware that the rest isn’t great!
Very good review actually,was looking for something like that souole of hours ago and couldn’t find.
Works for me right now. You can try the Piped mirror https://piped.video/lU4vv7qCQvg
