Dissapointed experience with Fairphone

[AnotherElk]

@MMGA

Fairphone repair centre sent me a quote for 337,61 euros for the repair and said that the phone stopped working because of an electronic fault on the motherboard.

I was very disappointed with the quote given as I may as well buy a new phone for that amount of money

The core module (motherboard) basically is “the phone”, bar some accessories. A lot more went into it than into the other modules. If it is defective and out of warranty, yeah, this will be costly, sadly.

@mikiballester

When Fraunhofer Institute looked at the relative contribution of the phone’s parts to its CO2 emissions, they found at least 70% of the carbon footprint is in the core — the central module that contains the system-on-a-chip (think of it as the brains).

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@MMGA

my phone did not last and cannot be repaired by myself because Fairphone does not sell the electronic card/motherboard.

Just as a valuable data point …
They don’t seem willing to do so, but if they sold the core module to you for 222,64 EUR + shipping, would you have paid and done the repair yourself?