I have no experience with the Fairphones, but after I repaired two Xperias (X had a swelled battery which popped off the back, 10 III had a physically broken volume rocker which was falling out), repairability just became a lot more important for me.
You can fix those Sony devices, but you need experience, a heat gun, and then you may still destroy something which was working before the repair, if you are unlucky or inexperienced. I can’t tell if the Sony devices are harder to repair than others, my local repair store didn’t want to repair them, “because he doesn’t have spares and if I provide them, it would still be more complicated than for other devices”.
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