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iFixit tears down the newest Fairphone — how repairable is it ?, Ars Technica

iFixit tears down the newest Fairphone — how repairable is it ?, Ars Technica


    

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The Fairphone 3 gets the full iFixit treatment and a 10 / (score.)       

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                          Fairphone 3 is a 5. 65 – inch phone, running Android 9 on a Snapdragon 632 with 4GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage.

                                                            

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                          Here are the front and back.

                                                            

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                          Fairphone demonstrates a disassembled Fairphone 3. Notably not pictured: hot glue gun of any kind.

                                                            

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Dutch companyFairphonebelieves smartphones can and should be completely repairable and free of conflict-sourced materials. ARScoveredthe Fairphone 2 launch back in 2015 and performed an assisted teardown of a late prototype model with the company’s CEO . This time around, repair guide siteiFixitgot the pre-launch prototype and took it down top-to-bottom to see if Fairphone still makes good on its promise.

The Fairphone 3 itself

Before we get into the physical teardown, let’s take a quick look at the Fairphone 3’s specs.

    5. 65 – inch display – 2160 × 1080, 24 – bit color depth, 18: 9 aspect ratio, Gorilla Glass 5

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon (SoC — 1.8GHz eight-core CPU, with Adreno 506 GPU @ (MHz)
  • 4GB RAM
  • 64 GB internal storage, microSD expansion available
  • 12 MP rear / 8MP front camera. Rear camera has dual LED flash and takes video 4k @ 30 FPS, (P @) FPS, 720 p @ 60 FPS
  • 802. 11 ac Wi-Fi with BlueTooth 5 LE, NFC, and support for multiple GNSS (GPS) standards
  • Dual nano-SIM card, supporting 2G, 3G , and 4G LTE (GSM only — no CDMA; sorry Verizon subscribers)
  • USB Type-C, sensors include fingerprint scanner, ambient light, accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity, barometer, and compass
  • 3.5mm headphone jack included — no USB-C dongle needed!
  • 11 .8Wh battery

If you’re not a complete phone-head, you may want a few comparisons to place where the Fairphone 3 sits on a performance scale. A lot of international phones use the same Snapdragon 632 SoC, but very few seem to have been sold in the USA. It’s best described as a middle-of-the-road budget chipset. When comparing either CPU or GPU scores on multiple benchmarks, the Snapdragon 632 used in the FairphonescoresRoughly (% to) % faster than the Exynos B used in the Samsung Galaxy A (e) one of AT & T’s current line-up of “free with new subscription” budget phones) but only half as fast as the Snapdragon 845 used in Google’s flagship Pixel 3. These observations hold up across a wide range of both CPU and GPUbenchmarks.

The 11 .WW battery comes in between the Google Pixel 3 (11. 6Wh) and the iPhone XS Max ((**************************************************************************************************************. 1Wh). We won’t really know what this comes to in run-time until the phone hits the market, however, since power draw is the flip side of the coin when you look at power capacity. That can depend strongly on OS and application optimizations.

The phone is a little less than 10 mm thick and weighs in at 189 g) 6. (oz) . This is a touch thick, but the weight is middle-of-the-road; by comparison, the iPhone 10 was 7.7mm thick and 174 g, the iPhone 11 is 8.3mm thick and 194 g. Google’s Pixel 3 is 7.9mm thick and only (g) 5. (oz).

Gorilla Glass 5is the same formulation Samsung used in the Galaxy S8 and S9 series, although it has moved on to Gorilla Glass 6 with the Galaxy S 10 . Google also used Gorilla Glass 5 in its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL, though not the cheaper Pixel 3A.

The teardown

      

      

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                          You can get a surprising distance in a Fairphone 3 disassembly before needing so much as a screwdriver. The back cover peels off tool-free, giving access to the battery underneath.

                                                            

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                          You’re still completely tool-free (assuming your nails are fairly strong, at least) when it comes time to swap out the battery.

                                                            

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                          This is iFixit’s fully disassembled Fairphone 3. Unlike most of their full teardowns, the Fairphone3 will actually go back together in working order!

                                                            

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iFixit did the complete teardown disassembly shown above with only a spudger and a 00 Phillips-head screwdriver. If you want to go a step further and take apart the modules themselves — not something you’d do in the course of normal repair — you’ll need to add a T5 Torx driver and an opening pick to your toolkit. Nothing was hot-glued together. The headphone jack, flash LEDs, and proximity and ambient light sensors are soldered onto the breakout board; the USB-C port and mic are soldered into the bottom module.

In addition to the full (out of 10 score on repairability, the Fairphone 3 uses (ethically) sourced components and labor.

Price and availability

Bad news, US readers — you’re going to need a friend somewhere in Europe if you want to buy one. The company is only shipping to European countries, although the phone itself should work to some degree with most American mobile companies (except Verizon) if you can somehow get one.

European readers can preorder a Fairphone 3 now, with shipping expected to begin in late October. The phone costs € 450. 00 plus shipping (for the UK, shipping is DHL, with cost from € 10. 20 – 13. 20). By way of comparison, that’s a bit more than aPixel 2– and you do get the assurance that if you break the screen, it can be easily and (cheaply) replaced (possibly at home!), the battery can be even more easily replaced when it degrades, and that you did your best to avoid problematic supply chains.

        

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