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I don't see myself doing anything with my s21 other than a new battery in another year.
My problem isn't necessarily the price being so high, it's that the performance is just trash for that price. The repairability for a phone in that performance class is OK. In my mind I compare it to an A6 in performance which comes with amoled screen and there's enough parts on the market to rebuild it forever. The only advantage fairphone has is that there's no glue on the back panel there's thousands of A9s already manufactured.
And the A6 costs < $100 on the used market with a new battery.
IMHO fairphone is making e-waste by making more already obsolete phones and taking advantage of people's desire to think they're saving the world by using a repairable phone when getting something of better quality/performance from the used market is actually better for the environment.