In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?
I don’t know where you’re getting that it has the “performance of an iPhone 7”. The QCM6490 is most analogous to a Snapdragon 782G, which was the fastest Snapdragon 700-series chip before they moved to the Snapdragon 7 Gen X branding. It was released in late 2022.
It’s not a range topper, but it’s still a respectable midranged chip even for 2023.
Fairphone went with an embedded chip rather than a mainstream Snapdragon because Snapdragon chips only get something like three years of support, whereas some of their enterprise products get eight. The QCM6490 will allow the Fairphone 5 to get software updates until 2031.
Here’s the benchmarks: link. CPU - Fairphone 5: 1100 / 2800. Apple A11 CPU (iPhone 8/X): 1092 / 2352.
I don’t quite get where sustainability comes from. You can buy similar (hardware-wise) Samsung with 4 year support for twice as cheap. 300$ difference is enough to change battery and screen even at overpriced Samsung’s official repair service.
I don’t know where you’re getting that it has the “performance of an iPhone 7”. The QCM6490 is most analogous to a Snapdragon 782G, which was the fastest Snapdragon 700-series chip before they moved to the Snapdragon 7 Gen X branding. It was released in late 2022.
It’s not a range topper, but it’s still a respectable midranged chip even for 2023.
Fairphone went with an embedded chip rather than a mainstream Snapdragon because Snapdragon chips only get something like three years of support, whereas some of their enterprise products get eight. The QCM6490 will allow the Fairphone 5 to get software updates until 2031.
Here’s the benchmarks: link. CPU - Fairphone 5: 1100 / 2800. Apple A11 CPU (iPhone 8/X): 1092 / 2352.
I don’t quite get where sustainability comes from. You can buy similar (hardware-wise) Samsung with 4 year support for twice as cheap. 300$ difference is enough to change battery and screen even at overpriced Samsung’s official repair service.