I know several family members who have bought Fairphone's and been disappointed by them. It's really impressive how repairable they've managed to make such integrated devices, but it seems like they didn't do such a good job on making a reliable phone in the first place.

I think what we really need is legislation to force all phone manufacturers to at least make the batteries and screens relatively easily replaceable. Maybe a cap on the replacement costs and a minimum support time would be a reasonable way to do that.

> I think what we really need is legislation to force all phone manufacturers to at least make the batteries and screens relatively easily replaceable.

We are slowly getting there, user removable/replaceable batteries are part of the following regulation (first link I've got)

https://www.brownejacobson.com/insights/compliance-obligatio...

The big caveat will be that some leeway is going to be given to "waterproof" devices. Remains to be seen how many producers jump on that angle to avoid serviceability.

And with an unlockable bootloader (that can be easily unlocked without needing to contact the manufacturer or require any special software).

I've read that the Fairphone 6 is more like a "regular" phone than the previous one, because it has a standard phone chip (Snapdragon) instead of an IoT one.

They did that to get longer software support from Qualcomm, but now they can get long support for Snapdragon chips.