Thinking about a new Fairphone 5

About a year ago I brought a new Fairphone 4, love the concept that it’s sustainable and no slavery for kids or grownups. I think the phone works well for me, except people complain about the quality off my phone calls. Sometimes I use my wifes old Samsung phone when I want to call someone :slightly_frowning_face: Support can’t find the issue and told me I could send it to Fairphone, but then I’m without a phone for weeks :grimacing:
So I was thinking about buying two Fairphone 5’s. I’m wondering if the Fairphone 5 has the same issues when calling. So can you give me some review about it’s pro’s and con’s?

Don’t get a fairphone 5 right now, the fairphone 6 is just around the corner and as you already said the support for the phone is really bad. (including warranty cases)

Hi, FP5 is a reliable phone and I did not have any serious issues.
However, there were people who did. I guess you will also find users with no issues with FP4.

I would still try to have your FP4 diagnosed properly, perhaps with the help of the forum, support, the FP Angels or internal diagnostics?

Or perhaps I did not quite get the idea, but why would you get two FP5s and repair FP4?

Thank you, I mean selling my FP4 and buying two FP5s, one for me and one for my wife

Hartelijk groet,

Homme de Jong

Just looking at the forum, no the FP5 does not have the same issues reg. call quality as the FP4 and I’m not confident it could be repaired, the issues are quite different for those affected, I personally am not affected.

Overall reading a bit in the forum you should get an idea about the FP5 issues and how important those would be for you.

Reg. the FP6 I would like to add: we assume it will come this year, however there is no official hint yet.

No problem for my calls, as far as my friends haven’t tell me :grinning:
I have a FP5 since last august, and I complain about a quick level battery decreasing, since few weeks. I don’t really mind, I’ve to check, search… Don’t have much time. Anyway, I had an old Xiaomi that gave me fully satisfaction and don’t regret it ! Long life to FP !

And you have a reliable source for the info on the FP6 being “just around the corner” as you said?

Fairphone release schedule, new phone each 2 year and release at end of summer/September

That’s absolutely not a source as such. That’s just a guesstimate based on certain things that happened in the past.

Which we call a rumor, I never said I work at fairphone or anything.

No you didn’t. But you presented it in a way that it looked like reliable info, which it wasn’t.

Well you are reading a user forum about a phone that was not even announced. Why would you think it is more than a user opinion on a public forum?

Ehm, I’m not interested in a virtual phone that perhaps will be launched some day. :sunglasses: The more I’m interested in the pro’s and con’s of the existing FP5. Some replies gave me hope the FP5 will be a beter phone than the old one FP4 i’ve got. Maybe some more reviews will help me to decide to buy the FP5.