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.
A European alternative to iPhone, Samsung Galaxy.
This record has not been verified yet. The values below were entered from public knowledge and are shown as claims, not facts. Until each one is checked against Fairphone's own site and dated, it earns no points. How verification works.
How the EU-ness score breaks down
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Manufacturing
Unverified0 / 30 ptsManufactured in China
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Design & engineering
Unverified0 / 15 ptsDesigned in Netherlands
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Company headquarters
Unverified0 / 15 ptsHeadquartered in Netherlands
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Ownership & control
Unverified0 / 20 ptsEU-owned, privately held
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Materials & components
Unverified0 / 10 ptsInputs sourced mainly outside the EU
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Supply-chain transparency
Unverified0 / 10 ptsPublishes a supply-chain or factory disclosure
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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
Unverified0 / 20 pts5-year warranty
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Repairability
Unverified0 / 25 ptsspare parts for 8 years, public repair manuals
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Independent certification
Not documented0 / 30 ptsHas an outside body certified anything about this product?
Energy label
Not documented0 / 10 ptsWhat is the EU energy class, where one applies?
Long-term support
Unverified0 / 15 pts8 years of support committed
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Where it comes from
- Designed inUnverified
- Netherlands
- Manufactured inUnverified
- 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
- NetherlandsUnverified
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