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by autosharp 1721 days ago
Same here. Bought one on the promise of being able to purchase spare parts. 18 months later the battery is dead and I cannot buy a new one, ever again. That is worse than a regular Samsung on the principal measure they claim to be good at. If there should be just one spare part you sell, it should be the battery. Alas.
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I came across https://shop.fairphone.com/en/spare-parts, seems like they do sell spare batteries for all versions
When I needed it for fairphone 2, many years ago, they said they would never sell that battery again.
They're still available at the store I don't get what you're complaining about.
So they sold you a modular phone, meaning you could change any piece of hardware in it, but you can't even change the battery. Talk about irony.
You can change the battery (I actually bought two when buying the phone, it makes a really tiny powerbank) like other parts, but they had a lot of sourcing issue making some spare parts unavailable for long periods.