Apparently Nokia has released a repair friendly phone (G22) in tie-up with iFixit for original replacement parts!
Hugh Jeffreys does a tear down and verifies the claims - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGM-SgfyU4
This means we can finally get a repairable smartphone in India, Since #fairphone & #pine64 devices are never coming here.
With un-lockable bootloader, It seems viable for #LineageOS & #postmarketOS hacking; Unisoc T606 chipset is bit concerning though. Any thoughts @joelselvaraj ?
@abishek_muthian I wonder if iFixit will also publish an overall repairability score for the G22 at some time. My guess would be 7 or 8 tops.
As Hugh said, replacing the battery isn't as easy as it looks from the manual.
The G22 being a first attempt from Nokia I think the most important aspect is the availability and price of spares. And like Hugh said let's hope the repairability improves with the next models.
@Ingo_FP_Angel @abishek_muthian I think the fact that self-repair doesn't void warranty is also a pretty major improvement here. I guess it's not so much in the design of the phone, but still a significant step in the right direction.
I'm not planning on retiring my fairphone 3 any time soon, but it's good to see some competition is popping up. At this point I wouldn't even consider a phone that isn't repairable if I were to buy one.
@Ingo_FP_Angel @abishek_muthian I guess what it boils down to is choice, so that's probably the word I was after at least.
I agree competition is not the correct term - of all the things potentially holding Fairphone back, a lack of competition is not one of them.
That said, they're all companies who need to chase profits - in the end they have no choice but to compete. The best we can do (short of revolting against capitalism) is to try to make ethical businesses competitive.
@sab @abishek_muthian Oh yeah, good point about the warranty and self-repairs!
Maybe it's only me, but I'm not too fond of the word "competition" when it comes to other companies with a similar goal like Fairphone. I'm not a native speaker but I'd rather use something like comrade-in-arms, though I do not like the military connotation. If anyone has a better English word for people who are working towards a common goal I'm happy to hear it.