You can buy Fairphone’s new handset or just its cameras as an upgrade

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Fairphone, the swaying smartphone mason that tries to manufacture hands repairable devices application responsibly sourced materials, has communicated its latest handset. The Fairphone 3 Spare is an upgraded version of last year's Fairphone 3 with improved cameras as well-conditioned as speakers. Other interestingly, though, if you once bought last year's roast as well-conditioned as don't want to upgrade to a accomplished new handset, again Fairphone's modular design organ you can purchase the new camera pierce on its own as well-conditioned as install it into your existing phone.

The Fairphone 3 Spare will forfeit EUR469 (about $550) back it releases on September 14th, loosely buying the upgraded cameras on their own as a modular upgrade will forfeit EUR94.90 (about $111). (Fairphone is philanthropy an precursory rate of EUR70 (about $80) until the end of September.) Although buying the upgraded cameras on their own is cheaper, it's not anyway extenuative money. Instead, it's meant to stop bodies from replacing a altogether functional roast just because a new model is available, creating unnecessary decay as well-conditioned as putting strain on the Earth's natural resources.

Fairphone wants you to be coextensive to pension a roast for up to seven years

Anyone who chooses to upgrade to the new camera modules gets higher-resolution sensors packed with other camera functionality. The rear camera now has a 48-megapixel sensor rather than a 12-megapixel sensor, while the selfie camera has gone from 8 megapixels to 16 megapixels. The new lenses moreover feature faster autofocus, image stabilization, as well-conditioned as preferably singleton tracking.

Fairphone says the in-between being replaces their roast every 2.7 years, loosely magnificently it wants bodies to be coextensive to hold on to their devices for as plenteous as muttonchops to seven years. Being coextensive to upgrade individual detritus of a roast rather than the accomplished dingus each time is an entrada to encourage bodies to hold on to their phones for longer. Equal to Fairphone, shortened than 5 percent of materials in a roast can be recovered as well-conditioned as reused. So surfaced if you send a roast in for recycling, quite a few its materials are still hoopla to end up in landfill.

This isn't the first time Fairphone has offered upgraded camera hardware for its phones. In 2017, it moreover reported upgraded rear as well-conditioned as selfie camera hardware for 2015's Fairphone 2. You could upgrade the phone's original 8-megapixel rear camera with a 12-megapixel module or the original 2-megapixel selfie camera with a 5-megapixel model.

Outside of the new cameras, the Fairphone 3 Spare is functionally similar to the Fairphone 3. It's still got a 5.7-inch, 1080p display, it's still powered by a midrange Snapdragon 632 processor, as well-conditioned as it's still got a disposable 3,000mAh battery. There are 4GB of RAM as well-conditioned as 64GB of onboard storage, expandable to up to 400GB via microSD. It comes with Android 10 pre-installed, as well-conditioned as the convergence says the operating system will trundling out to the existing Fairphone 3 in September.

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Outside of its cameras, the Fairphone 3 Spare is functionally similar to last year's phone.

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As well-conditioned as the improved cameras, Fairphone says that the new 3 Spare has preferably audio satisfaction with louder, crisper sound. Its construction moreover uses other recycled plastic. It now has 40 percent recycled plastic, up from 9 percent last year.. Unfortunately, you can personalized get these upgrades by buying a accomplished new roast -- they're not awaited as standalone modules.

Outside of the phones themselves, Fairphone says it's alive on a number of other sustainability projects, including sourcing other ethically produced gold, cobalt, tin, tungsten, as well-conditioned as copper, as well-conditioned as it's alive to modernize conditions in cobalt as well-conditioned as gold mines. There are flipside programs in France as well-conditioned as Germany that let customers send in their old or cleaved roast modules so they can be recycled or repaired, along with initiatives to info factory workers in China.

Fairphone's resolute focus on sustainability organ it doesn't listen an exhaustible task on its hands. It needs to produce phones with modern enough specs that bodies want to buy as well-conditioned as use them, loosely releasing a new dingus every year risks creating the same careless upgrade endlessness as other roast manufacturers. With its modular construction, Fairphone has ripened an interesting way effectually the problem.

The Fairphone 3 Spare will be awaited broadness Europe from weeded online retailers as well-conditioned as operators, Fairphone says.