About Fairphone 5

Model 5 was presented in August 2023

Connectivity

This model has bands 2G, 3G and LTE. Performance is about HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (4CA) Cat18 1200/150 Mbps, 5G 2.3 Gbps DL, GSM / HSPA / LTE / 5G.

Ports on 5 are USB USB Type-C 3.0, OTG, DisplayPort, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 5.2, A2DP, LE, Positioning GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NFC.

Something more

Few features on the 5 are Standard 5-year warranty.

Available options for charge 30W wired, 50% in 30 min (advertised).

Another important features on phone are sensors, this model got Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass.

Little bit about performance

Octa-core (1x2.7 GHz Cortex-A78 & 3x2.2 GHz Cortex-A78 & 4x1.9 GHz Cortex-A55) CPU was designed for 5, based on chipset Qualcomm QCM6490 (6 nm), Video adapter on this device is Adreno 643L.

Storage on this device is 256GB 8GB RAM, card slot is available microSDXC (dedicated slot), under the hood is Android 13, planned upgrade to Android 14.

Fairphone 5 camera info

5 by Fairphone got 2 cameras 50 MP, f/1.9, (wide), 1/1.56", 1.0µm, PDAF, OIS 50 MP, f/2.2, (ultrawide), 1/2.51", 0.7µm, PDAF TOF 3D, (depth). Some another extra info are Dual-LED dual-tone flash, HDR, panorama. Video on main camera of this device is supported with 4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60/120/240fps, gyro-EIS choices. This is quite good for example one of available devices at the moment, Xiaomi Redmi Watch 3 Active,

Video on selfie camera of this device is available with 4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps, gyro-EIS choices.

Body and color variants

5 by Fairphone has proportion 75.5mmX162mmX10.5mm.

2 colors are available for Fairphone 5, matte black, sky blue and lastly transparent edition.

Screen on Fairphone 5 made with technologies OLED, 90Hz, 880 nits (peak), at a moment 5 had screen larger size than only 17% of devices in mobile market, empowered by 6.46 inches, 101.2 cm2 (~82.8% screen-to-body ratio) screen with resolution 1224 x 2700 pixels with density 459 pixels in 1 inch square, about screen protection I can highlight that used corning Gorilla Glass 5.