Watch: This is the world’s most repairable smartphone
The Fairphone 5 smartphone has an attractive design, and any user can replace its various parts without the need for specialized technical knowledge.
The smartphone industry is currently moving in a direction that has made repairing and replacing parts of these products much more difficult than before. Today, in order to open most smartphones, you need to have enough expertise and technical knowledge in this field and use special tools, and this is the reason why users do not do it themselves. On the other hand, going to repairmen can sometimes cost a lot.
Several versions of FairPhone have been released so far, the most important feature of which is high repairability. The latest product of this company, FairPhone 5, is made like the phones of the past decades, and you don’t need any technical knowledge to access its internal parts, with a simple screwdriver, you can take out all the internal components of the device and replace them if needed.
YouTube channel JerryRigEvertthing has shared a video of the FairPhone 5 dissection titled “The best phone in the world” that shows the process of accessing its internal parts. In this video, we can see that the back door of the phone is connected to its body without glue and only with a few plastic clips. After removing the door, you can easily access the battery and replace it if needed like old phones.
Most parts of FairPhone 5 use modular design, which means they can be easily separated from each other. Even the selfie camera of this device is connected to the main board with a Lego-like connection interface, which makes it very easy to replace.
Although the price of FairPhone 5 is about 760 dollars, due to its high repairability, you can use it for years and if any problem occurs, you can repair it yourself by buying new parts. The beating heart of this device is Qualcomm’s QCM64 8-core processor and it is equipped with a 6.46-inch OLED display with a 90 Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 2700 x 1224 pixels.
Other features of FairPhone 5 include 8GB RAM, 256GB storage, microSD card support up to 2TB, a 50MP main camera with optical image stabilization (OIS), a 50MP ultrawide camera with 117° viewing angle, and a 50MP selfie camera. did This phone is also equipped with a 4200mAh battery and supports 30W charging.