I just found out about these phones and I am surprised they haven’t been brought up here yet. This seems awesome! I’m buying a Skyline to give it a try as replaceable battery and other parts on a phone is my dream feature.
What do you think?
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Fairphone? I suppose it comes down to how long HMD supports their devices compared to fairphone. Unless HMD really blow away the fairphone in photo and performance. Then it might be worth considering.
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Nice find, but it looks like they’ve gone the same way as Fairphone and removed the 3,5mm headphone jack. So not a phone for me.
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I looked at them, but the software is only supported for 3 years of patches. Seeing as my cell phone is effectively the keys to my kingdom (2 factor and email), that means that the software will not last long enough to make reparability an issue for me. The main reason I went for my Samsung S24 Ultra was the 7 years of updates. I only upgraded from my Note 10 5g because it fell out of software support.
Fairphone is not really supported in the US, so I didn’t even look at the software support.
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I beileve the latest Fairphones are.
It looks like the fairphone 4 is available in the US, but with only 5 years of updates (but maybe 7 will be announced), so they officially fall out of support at the end of 2026 (maybe mid 2028). My S24 is good until 2031. The fairphone 5 is not available in the us officially.
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What about switching to Lineage OS? That’s what I have done with phones in the past after they have gone past official support (Samsung Note 2, which I used for like 6 years until the nand died on it).
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It would be an option, and I will look more closely once my S24 is out of service, but I have become more wary of monkeying with my critical devices. I want them to just work, and keep working. I hope there are good options on the phone front for long-lasting and repairable phones in 2031.
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I have to say, the process of disassembly and reassembly looks impressive. It’s nice to see another company in the repairable smartphone market. Competition can be very good.
If HMD repairable models become popular with custom ROM devs, then an HMD might become my next phone even.