Should i buy the FairPhone?

[Stefan]

@a4z

Unsure about the selling numbers and problem %, but if 60000 phones are sold, and 1% have problems, this are 600. If half of those visit this place to write about frustrations, this 300 are more to hear here than the 59400 who have no problems and not come here to report that everything works.

There is some interesting information in this thread:

Smartphone failure rates

Hi all! Out of curiosity (@DoraXP made me think of it in this post) I researched a bit on the matter of smartphone failures and warranty and discovered this article from 2010 (I did not read all of it). It states: So, assuming that the FP1/FP1U has similar drop-out-rates as the iPhone 4, about 1,260 (out of 60,000) of the phones sold in 2014 would be erratic in the first year of their usage. The spectrum goes up to 6,7%: For Fairphone this would be over 4,020 (out of 60,000). I thought t…

Unfortunately Fairphone has not published any data about the failure rates of FP1 or FP2.