iFixit Guest Blog: Important Notes to Take From Fairphone’s Design Team

Last week at iFixit we did a teardown of the Fairphone 4, which earned an exceedingly rare 10/10 on our repairability scale. During that teardown, I was impressed with many of the decisions the Fairphone design team made. With repair legislation around the corner in most markets around the world (and already in effect in some places like France) there has never been a better time for smartphone makers to take a few notes from Fairphone 4’s design, and this company’s methods. Here are some that stuck out to me during our teardown.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.fairphone.com/en/2021/12/02/ifixit-fairphone-4/