Comment by palata

I have been wondering and I first got a Fairphone 3+ because I thought, among others, it was "greener".

Then I realised that:

- Fairphone 3 was already "slow" when it was released in 2019

- Fairphone 3+ was pretty much exactly the same hardware, but I bought it 2.5 years later

- My Fairphone 3+ was annoyingly slow from the moment I bought it (I was using it less than a normal phone because of that, and I just completely gave up on using the camera and asked other people to take photos instead).

- My Fairphone 3+ became painfully after 1.5 - 2 years.

I did not change phone because the hardware was not running anymore. I changed because I just couldn't use the few apps I needed because they were unusable (lagging and crashing). I don't mean games: banking apps, weather forecasts, public transports. Pretty much only Signal/WhatsApp were fine (slow, but fine).

So I painfully kept my Fairphone 3+ for a little more than 4 years.

Then I realised that people who buy an iPhone routinely keep it 6-8 years, without it being painful at all. Is it "greener" if I buy one iPhone/Pixel, or 2 Fairphones? I'm not so sure anymore. What I know is that the iPhone/Pixel are not painful to use.