Fairphone 4 5G official, modular, sustainable and reasonably priced

(Pocket-lint) - Dutch shaper Fairphone is backmost with its archetypal 5G handset.

Like its erstwhile devices, the Fairphone 4 5G is large connected sustainability. It is modular, which makes it easier to repair and truthful should past longer betwixt upgrades.

It comes with a mammoth five-year warranty astatine nary further cost, successful bid to promote customers to support clasp of the instrumentality for longer than usual. Software enactment is besides guaranteed until 2027, with the institution claiming that it volition guarantee Android versions up to Android 15 volition work. If the chipset is not capable, it volition beryllium improved arsenic portion of the after-care support.

"We're taking a wholly antithetic attack to manufacturing smartphones," said Fairphone's CEO, Eva Gouwens.

"We're changing the mode devices are made and used. We privation to situation the accepted mode of designing devices, including the conception that thinner is better. The starting constituent successful improvement was to nutrient a premium sustainable smartphone that is future-proof, easy repairable, designed to past and truthful much circular and fair."

In presumption of specifications, the Fairphone 4 5G comes with a 6.3-inch Full HD+ display, protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5.

It runs connected a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G processor, with either 6GB oregon 8GB RAM depending connected the model. Storage is either 128GB oregon 256GB, again depending connected the handset chosen.

There's a 48-megapixel main camera connected the rear, which supports signifier detection. An further 48-megapixel sensor is included for macro and ultra-wide photography.

A 25-megapixel snapper is connected the front, hidden successful a tiny notch.

The telephone is disposable for pre-order present from Fairphone.com, priced astatine £499 / €579 oregon £569 / €649, depending connected the variant. The 128GB exemplary volition beryllium disposable successful grey, with the 256GB exemplary adding greenish and greenish speckled versions too.

It volition vessel from 25 October 2021, with further availability done UK carriers EE, Your Co-op Mobile, Honest Mobile, Sky Mobile and Virgin Media.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 1 October 2021.