# Fairphone 2

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/fairphone-2/

5 people recommended Fairphone 2 in Hacker News comments and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for long software support and repairability, with parts still sold years after release. Critics say it has the same replace-every-few-years pattern as other phones and that some owners were left with unusable devices.

Summary written by Claude from 11 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 10 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Parts still sold a decade later (2 comments in the sample): "FP2 is 11 years old & there's still (a limited subset of) parts for sale for it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46677856)) "First-party parts 10 years later, what a concept!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46677522))

## What people warn about

- Update left phone unusable (2 comments in the sample): "Got a software update when I moved back to Australia. Bricked it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564709)) "was completely unusable at the end" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567217))

## Other smartphones people recommend

- [Apple iPhone](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone/): 438 recommend, 190 mixed, 789 criticize
- [Fairphone](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fairphone/): 110 recommend, 42 mixed, 94 criticize
- [iPhone 13 mini](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone-13-mini/): 105 recommend, 32 mixed, 44 criticize
- [Apple iPhone Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone-17-pro/): 90 recommend, 45 mixed, 138 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.fairphone.com/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Fairphone 2", https://hackerapproved.com/p/fairphone-2/ (5 recommend, 0 mixed, 5 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.