My FP3: 7 years and counting

In this topic you can request for the 7 years badges for your FP3 if you are still using it.

MY FP3 is still working, I am keeping it until it dies.

Not sure if it counts, but I thought I’d share:

The mainboard of my Fairphone 3 died 3 years ago. Reflowing wouldn’t work and didn’t come around to replacing it.

This summer I bought a replacement board from @FPbonn for cheap here on the forum, and now my FP3 is up and running again smoothely with iodeOS 6. It is used as a backup phone or when traveling not-so-safe parts of the world, where I want to spare my other daily device.

Thanks to this kind community and lineage-based alternative operating systems, I hope the phone will last me some more years.

This reminds me of the Fairphone of Theseus :thought_balloon:.

As long as the Wifi antenna is the same… :face_with_hand_over_mouth::face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Yes, it counts. There are parts of your phone 7 and perhaps the core also.

well, if you have tooth implants, new lenses in your eyes and possible a hip replacement one day, you are still @vloex - so it should be the same for an FP

haha, thanks for the read!

Yesterday, my FP3 turned out 7 as my daily driver phone. It’s starting to become a bit “slugish”, but I’m still very happy with it :slightly_smiling_face:.

In fact, thanks to the GCam port it takes excellent pictures, much better than many newer phones! :camera_with_flash::selfie: