Fairphone 5
Bram Lodewijks casts a meticulous and moral eye over the latest ethical phone.
The Fairphone 5 is far more than the sum of its replaceable parts.
SPECS
SoC: Qualcomm QCM6490 EL, 64-bit Clock: 8-core, 4x silver 1.9GHz, 3x gold 2.4GHz, 1x prime 2.7GHz GPU: Adreno 643L 812MHz Mem: 8GB Screen: 6.5- inch 90Hz OLED, 1,224x 2,700, 880 nits, Gorilla Glass 5 Storage: 256GB, up to 2TB microSD Cameras: Main 50MP Sony IMX 800 OIS + EIS, UW 50MP Sony IMX 858 EIS; Front 50MP Samsung JN1 EIS Video: 4k 30fps, 1080p 120fps, 720p 240fps Comms: 4/5G (nano SIM+ eSIM), Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 LE, NFC, USB-C 3 OTG Sensors: Facial, fingerprint, magnet, cccel, gyro, compass, light, proximity Location: GPS/ AGPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo Battery: 30W QC3 4,200mAh removable OS: Android 13 Warranty: Five years, IP55, MIL-810H Size: 76x9.6x 162mm, 212g
While every other smartphone manufacturer bombards us with numerous new models W every year, Fairphone plays differently. It has been more than eight years since we looked at the Fairphone 2 (LXF210), and this ties in with the Dutch company’s overall sustainable approach: it wants to get rid of the culture in which you replace your smartphone every year.
The new Fairphone 5 continues the company’s sustainable strategy. You are guaranteed to receive five Android updates and eight years of security updates, and Fairphone hopes to extend this to 10 years of updates. And where the Fairphone 4 had eight separate parts that could be replaced by an end user, the improved modular design now includes 10 parts that you can swap out and substitute with a replacement..