It’s now 
years ago that Fairphone released the FP3 and the first buyers got ahold of their devices in September 2019.
So time to ask who has been holding on to her or his FP3 for a full five years so far. This is the place to get your badge from the Fairphone Community Forum @moderators. 
Note the FP3+ was released a year later, but feel free to look up the 
longevity 
topic that fits your individual FP3 or FP3+ lifetime (my own has only turned 3.5 this month …). And everyone using an FP3 or FP3+ may also cast a vote here 
How satisfied or unsatisfied are you with your FP3 or FP3+?
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three. Perhaps someone wants to set up a same-themed topic for that (I cannot be bothered to do so myself right now 
). Again, feel free to check the other 
Only just found this thread - my FP3 turned 5 last September, too. Along the way, I upgraded it to FP3+ (camera) and changed the USB module after a water incident. Original back cover (the white letter “O” is hanging on for dear life), though it has a chip or two, but the replacement is too expensive. The original bumper has gotten quite round on the back edges where I hold it, and it has some slack, but still protects nicely.
A new speaker module is waiting on my desk, the covering mesh of the old one had become dirty beyond cleaning (and consequently played very weakly), so I removed the mesh, which made the speaker surprisingly loud. However, it should sound better with the mesh and it also serves protection.
Also, a new battery is waiting here. The original one still gets me through the day with battery saver. But in order to improve speed which has deteriorated over time, I plan to turn off batt.saver with the new battery, even if that shortens its lifespan, but 4 more years is anyway the most I expect to keep my FP3. I’ve now asked FP support whether they recommend “calibrating” the new battery as described by Ifixit, or not. I had to laugh at the FP 
I also turned off UI animations (another speed boost!), and will extend SD memory so I can free some internal memory, and I’ll declutter the >100 open tabs in the browser, hoping to gain yet a bit more speed, so that the FP3 remains usable over the next years.
I have to confess that I am notoriously dodging updates, I’m still running Android 11. At first, this came through the scary reports of bugs and problems caused by the updates. And later, I read that updates would cost me even more responsiveness / speed than I had already lost (by general clutter, but also by apps becoming fatter with every update). Until now, no problem with the old Android. I know, we love FP for its many years of Android updates, but what good are they if they cause trouble or make the phone sluggish?
My wife will soon need a new phone, but I’m hesitant about FP5: One thing, she is really used to Qi charging, and another, she needs a really rugged case that is also protecting the display side when being slapped on the desk face-down. We’ll have to see…
Cheers to all fellow FP3 owners 
(btw, my electric scooter is turning 6 now with >15.000 km, another piece of sustainability, even though the manufacturer Unu has gone bankrupt in the meantime - but I’m still driving happily, as long as it’s not 
or 
- now enough silly 
for today)
“phone storage”). The more you have shifted to the card, the smaller the “everything from scratch” work becomes. (I actually think there are more good reasons to do this, not just to lower the effort threshold for a clean install, but I’ll leave it at that for now.)