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Fairphone 5: The obvious choice for smartphone sustainability

In a world of cookie-cutter, carboncopy smartphones, the new Fairphone 5 stands out. It isn’t the prettiest device, nor is it the most powerful. It doesn’t even have mind-bogglingly good cameras. Instead, the Fairphone 5 is simply built to last.

Fairphone doesn’t want you to trade in your phone for something new in a couple of years. The company would much rather you hold onto your device for as long as possible. To that end, it has made the Fairphone 5 easy to repair, given it a warranty that lasts five years and has promised to support it for far longer than any competing

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