I’ve been using my Fairphone 4 for a couple of months now and I really like it. It wasn’t easy to get it in Canada, but it works great with my carrier here. Getting my hands on some spare parts and a wallet case here wasn’t easy either.

But now I have a repairable phone with an extra battery and an extra camera module. I should be able to run this hardware for years to come regardless of wear and tear or the longevity of the company. I’m hoping to get 6 years out of it. I ran my previous LG phone for 7 before switching; had to replace the battery twice, which was easy because that model had a removable battery.

I love the idea of the fair phone but I hate the degoogling of it. Like I don’t love Google but they are so embedded into my phone that it’s pointless to try to change. I use a google voice number and thus all calls or texts I take are processed by Google. Going through the pain of not having the play store would just be a headache for no benefit. Not to mention email. I have 2 TB of google drive storage and transferring that is going to be a headache, not to mention something like proton mail only has 500 GB as it’s very top offering of storage.

I’ll happily degoogle myself when it becomes realistic to do so but right now there aren’t any real competitors to any of these services.

I was considering this some time back, but the fact that this sustainable phone doesn’t have a 3.5mm jack irks me.

I understand that it’s the trend nowadays but it’s still an extra dongle people will loose and need to buy again and again.