I want a repairable phone. A phone where I can replace the battery
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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Hum... So Fairphone ?
I really wanted to buy the Fairphone 5, but they don't ship replacement parts to where I live which makes the entire concept pointless.
Forward shipping exists.
OK, so that's a possibility, but when you start adding a ~$30 fee on top of the cost of the part and shipping from Fairphone you're looking at about $100 per repair, which stops making sense pretty quickly. You're better off spending a little more money on a good device that is dust- and moisture-sealed and taking care of it for a few years.
Makes sense. But you can offset part of the shipping from the fact that you can easily do the repair yourself.
Another possibility would be the HMD Skyline. Less repairable than Fairphones, but still far easier than most other smartphones. Only 2 years of updates though.
But starting from 2027, a removable battery will be mandatory for all smartphone in the EU, which mean most, if not all smartphone will switch to removable battery. This may also make repair a lot easier.
For the US, its not just shipping, but also an import fee on top of that, since the De Minimis rule just got overturned by the trump administration.
Yea, but with the De Minimis rule overturned by the trump administration, importing it to the US is gonna have import fees. And also a lot of fees for each part you import, making the whole "repairability" thing pointless as it cost so much.
And screen. And buttons.
I also want something that's supported more than 3 years so there's a point to repairing it. Ideally, support should come from the community so it can be infinite as long as someone is willing to do the work.
Based on https://postmarketos.org/install/ the Nokia N900 can run the latest stable release of PostmarketOS.
Nokia N900 was a proper Linux-powered phone released in November 2009.
So yeah, it's been getting over 15 years of community support so far.
Edit: Fixed typo
You can. Even if life can get complicated is entirely doable. Unless you live in like China with mandatory apps.
Why can't we go back to small phones?
I think this is correlation, not causation, as this was also when touch screens started being made
it's also when mobile media in general was available on your phone. tv, movies, YouTube, games, everything. not everything is about porn.
not everything is about porn.
You speak only for yourself.
I definitely was looking at porn on my 240x320 Nokia screen.
240x320
One boob takes up 76000 of your 76800 pixels.
You overestimate the resolution of porn back then. 90s kids needed some imagination to fill in the gaps...
Oh, I remember. Full res pic above the collar bone, then that weird speckled rendering for a couple lines and then... grey.
Well, I can't speak for everyone else, but I can't go back because they don't sell any small phones.
I picked the Pixel 8 because:
- it runs GrapheneOS
- It was a little smaller than the Pixel 8 Pro
If there was a smaller version available, I would've gotten that instead.
I've been using the "A" branch of the Pixel line for years now.
But I use CalyxOS so I guess you and I have to be enemies now. My name is Inigo Montoya, you use a different OS, prepare to die.
Ah man... I just installed graphene to try it ... (turns around and runs)
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Seriously though, would be nice if they could get along and share code and efforts, I'd love to try a graphene-hardened OS with sandboxed microg (instead of gsf) and datura firewall :) Maybe even have the option to have microg in one profile and google play in another. One can dream
Graphene and Calyx are two different paths to two different destinations. Graphene is for security, Calyx is for privacy.