Fairphone 5 Goes Official and Is the Most Repairable and Sustainable Smartphones in the Market with Decent Specs

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Over the past couple of years, the one company that has remained consistent with its statement happens to be Fairphone. The company has managed to make a name for itself in the market for a number of reasons. Their phones are not just sustainable, but they are also ethically produced and modular. This means that the entirety of the phone can be self-repaired with just the basic tools and the knowledge of how to use them. Now, the Fairphone 5 is here, and there are a number of amazing things about this smartphone.

For starters, with the Fairphone 5, the company is promising that the phone will receive five major Android updates and eight years of security patches, which kind of is a lot, even when you compare it to other companies. For instance, Samsung provides four major OS updates, and Google does three, for now, but is planning on changing it to five. There is more, however. The company has commented that the phone will get anywhere from eight to ten years of software support, which honestly is bonkers when you compare it with everything else in the market.

Now, in terms of the specs, the Fairphone 5 does pack some mainstream hardware, but the chipset that the company is using is the Qualcomm QCM6490, and the reason why you have not seen this chipset in any other phone in the market is that the processor is meant for industrial use. Based on the information available on this, it looks like a different variant of the Snapdragon 778G, which is an off-the-shelf processor normally found in upper-mid-range smartphones.

Fairphone 5 also brings a modular design, just like we have seen on older devices. This means that you can swap ten components of the phone without any issues. So, for instance, if the charging port on your