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There’s a famous scene in Only Fools and Horses where Trigger, a pal of Del Boy and Rodney who works as a roadsweeper, has been given a medal by the council for using the same broom for 20 years. The problem is, in that time Trigger’s ‘same’ broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles. Well, if Trigger had a smartphone it’d surely be a Fairphone 5. With 10 parts that can be replaced easily by the owner, including the 6.46in 90Hz OLED screen, the 4200mAh battery and both the 50MP main and 50MP ultrawide camera sensors, it’s Fairphone’s most repairable model yet – so you can keep it as good as new for as long as the octa-core Qualcomm QCM6490 CPU, Adreno 642L GPU and 8GB of RAM can keep it ticking over. Fairphone guarantees at least five OS upgrades to the untouched version of Android 13 it runs out of the box, so it should last until at least 2028, but it’ll still be supported until 2031 at the earliest. If you can do even better than that and keep it going for 20 years, you might even be eligible for a medal. Just ask Trigger. As hot as… Del Boy’s first date with Raquel £619 / fairphone.com