[alexandrerond]

I'm fully onboard with fair sourcing of materials etc. But what is with "repairability" as an excuse to make fragile, inferior phones?

I had a pixel 3 and I swapped camera, microphones, usb c port. The iFixit kit needed for this costs a few bucks but that's it.

It is just having good instructions that matter, and parts. A fully waterproof high end Pixel device is not less "repairable" that a fairphone.

[capableweb]

iFixit gives the various Pixel phones between 4-6 in "Repairability", while Fairphones gets between 7-10 (7 to Fairphone 1, 10 to Fairphone #2 and #3).

Are you saying that iFixit knows less about repairability than you? They seem to directly disagree with your statement that Pixel devices are not less "repariable" than a Fairphone.

You can check the scores here yourself: https://www.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability

Edit: Going deeper, apparently France is running a Repairability index as well, you can check how Fairphone is doing against Pixel there too: https://www.indicereparabilite.fr/ (spoiler: Pixel gets 6.3 while Fairphone gets 8.7 [out of 10])

[fsh]

I have a Pixel 3a whose battery is slowly starting to degrade after two years of use (~80% capacity left). Unfortunately, changing the battery requires removing the glued-in screen, which is quite fiddly and has the danger of cracking the OLED in the process [1]. If I had bought a Fairphone 3 instead, I could simply buy a spare battery for 30€ and change it in a few seconds.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+3a+Battery+Replace...