Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking repairable phone from the company yet.

The design is largely unchanged compared to the Fairphone 4, but the improvements that the company did make go a long way: The teardrop notch and the LCD screen is finally gone, with an ordinary punch-hole selfie and an OLED taking its place. Otherwise, you’re looking at an aluminum frame, a triangular camera array, and a removable back cover. Here, the company brought back its signature translucent back cover next to two black and blue variants. The dimensions and weight has been reduced ever-so-slightly compared to the predecessor.

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[–] 21 points 3 years ago (12 children)

Low-end hardware and a pretty much closed CPU you can't do much with for 700 Euros? No, thank you.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I dont really understand this gripe. Can you explain why its a closed CPU that I cant do much with?

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  • [+] -8 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    8 years of suffering on that octa-core

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    You make it sound like 8 years of guaranteed support is something bad, lol.

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  • [+] -13 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    No, but this will be a living, stutters hell in 3 years time.

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