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Fairphone 5

by Fairphone · 🇳🇱 Netherlands

The Fairphone 5 is a modular smartphone whose battery, screen, cameras and ports can be replaced with a standard screwdriver, with spare parts sold directly by the maker. Fairphone publishes its supplier list and reports on living wages at its assembly partners. It is a useful test of our own rubric: the design and the company are firmly Dutch, but final assembly happens in Asia, and the score says so.

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How the EU-ness score breaks down

Each criterion is worth a fixed number of points, multiplied by how good the evidence is and how recently it was checked. Read the full rubric.

  • Manufacturing

    Verified0 / 30 pts

    Manufactured in China

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “Manufacturer:No.86, Hechang 7th West Road, Zhongkai Hi-tech Development District, Huizhou, Guangdong”

  • Design & engineering

    Unverified0 / 15 pts

    Designed in Netherlands

    Recorded but not yet checked against a source, so it earns no points.

  • Company headquarters

    Verified15 / 15 pts

    Headquartered in Netherlands

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “FairPhone B.V. – Van Diemenstraat 200, 1013 CP Amsterdam, The Netherlands”

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “Registered office Van Diemenstraat 200 1013 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands”

  • Ownership & control

    Verified20 / 20 pts

    EU-owned, privately held

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “An international consortium of impact investors led by new shareholders Invest-NL, the ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund and existing shareholder Quadia with its Regenero Impact Fund, joined forces with other existing shareholders DALHAP, DOEN Participaties and PDENH to invest €49 million in Fairphone”

  • Materials & components

    Unverified0 / 10 pts

    Inputs sourced mainly outside the EU

    Recorded but not yet checked against a source, so it earns no points.

  • Supply-chain transparency

    Verified10 / 10 pts

    Publishes a supply-chain or factory disclosure

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “This document offers an introduction to our supply chain approach, and a summary of what we have learned about the Fairphone supply chains to date.”

Documented quality

Not a review score. These are things a maker either publishes and commits to, or does not — warranty length, spare parts, certifications, support windows.

  • Warranty

    Not documented0 / 20 pts

    How long does the maker stand behind it?

  • Repairability

    Verified11 / 25 pts

    spare parts for 5 years, public repair manuals

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “we will make spare parts available for your Fairphone 5 device for the entirety of the warranty period.”

    • support.fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “The Fairphone 5 is designed to make repair accessible. So, the separate spare parts of the device connect within the modular architecture without glue or complex screws.”

  • Independent certification

    Not documented0 / 30 pts

    Has an outside body certified anything about this product?

  • Energy label

    Verified9 / 10 pts

    EU energy class B

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “Energy efficiency class B”

  • Long-term support

    Verified15 / 15 pts

    8 years of support committed

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “we commit to eight years of updates and software support, guaranteeing a future proof performance until 2031, with five operating system upgrades after Android 13.”

    • fairphone.com · producer · checked 2026-07-29

      “With the Fairphone 5, we became the first to offer guaranteed software support for at least eight years, with five major Android updates.”

Where it comes from

Designed inUnverified
Netherlands
Manufactured inVerified
China

Who is behind it

Amsterdam social enterprise making modular, repairable smartphones and publishing detailed supply-chain and living-wage reporting for its assembly partners.

Legal entity
Fairphone B.V.
Founded
2013
Headquarters
NetherlandsVerified

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