They try to produce them as sustainable as possible. You can replace the battery and other parts. And you support an European company!

https://www.fairphone.com/

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    As much as I like the Fairphone people, the phones suck for me personally:

    • too big (FP1 was perfect size)
    • life cycle is fucking short: support gets dropped before my phone breaks (my FP1 is still in perfect shape but alas no security updates for years, had to trash my FP2 because when the charging port started to become unreliable, no spare parts were being sold anymore) - which flies in the face of their "mission to sustainability
    • not enough focus on LineageOS support
    • way too many cameras - but seemingly most people are vain enough to like that
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      22 hours ago

      way too many cameras

      two. the Fairphone 4 and 5 have two back-facing cameras. and I’ve been very grateful for the existence of the wide-angle camera countless times.

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      too big (FP1 was perfect size)

      It would be so awesome if they’d release a smaller, maybe like a 5.5 inch phone. I have big hands and still often struggle.

      life cycle is fucking short

      To be fair that’s a problem with all manufacturers. But yes they should provide much longer support. At least 5 years. I’d also happily pay for an extended support after that if it’s still working.

      not enough focus on LineageOS support

      I’d love them to support the project more! Degoogling is still hard. GrapheneOS support would be awesome too.

      way too many cameras

      I didn’t get this trend in the first place. It looks ugly on all phones. Still they keep adding them like their life depends on it.

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        19 hours ago

        It would be so awesome if they’d release a smaller, maybe like a 5.5 inch phone. I have big hands and still often struggle.

        Their position on this is that they are too small to run two product lines in parallel, so they focus on what the majority of customers want. And that’s unfortunately not smaller phones :(