Fairphone 2 review: A fully user-repairable modular smartphone with replaceable cameras.
A truly modular smartphone — and seven years of updates.
Fairphone 2 was the most repairable phone of its era — every module (display, camera, USB port, speaker, microphone) was user-replaceable with a screwdriver. Fairphone supported it for seven years of software updates, an industry record.
01Display
64/10064/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2015.
02Camera
54/10054/100 trails the 59-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2015.
03Performance
60/10060/100 puts it above the 56-point average for mid-range phones of 2015.
04Battery
56/10056/100 is one of the weaker battery results among mid-range phones of 2015 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among mid-range phones of 2015 — 11 points above the cohort average.
06Value
62/10062/100 puts it above the 59-point average for mid-range phones of 2015.
- Fully modular — user-replaceable screen, camera, speaker, USB port.
- Seven years of software updates (record).
- Fair-trade gold and conflict-free minerals.
- Removable battery + microSD.
- Modest hardware for the price.
- 2,420 mAh battery.
- Mono speaker.
- Thick 11 mm.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 42-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .