I don’t feel the current model is sustainable. With these small batteries it’s only a question of time when they wear out. When they do the buds can’t be used at all.
The selfproclaimed Right to Repair friendly Fairphones earbuds get the worst possible score on iFixit repairability score 1 out of 10. Absolutely appalling.
Some might say that making repairable earbuds is hard but the iFixit article links to Samsung Galaxy Buds thats gets 8/10 in the repairability score. So if Samsung can do it that even doesn’t promote iself as repairability brand and a Fairphone that claims that “If you can’t open it you don’t own it” makes worst product in this regard. Man there is no excuse.
This doesn’t really make it better, but the lowest possible score is actually 0/10. So the crown still goes to Apple AirPods. And to be fair, repairability was never the key point for Fairphone. It was actually fair trade materials and fair wages for the workers.
Both the earbuds and the charging case are made with 30% recycled plastics. And as a world-first, we managed to integrate Fairtrade Gold into the supply chain.
And we’ll do you one better: For every pair you buy, we save their weight in electronic waste from the landfill by reusing or recycling old electronics.