Fairphone is applying its repairability smarts to headphones

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Fairphone is applying its repairability smarts to headphones
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A pair of headphones after four generations of smartphones.

The Fairbuds XL can be easily broken down into around a dozen distinct components. Sometimes this is a toolless process, like when removing the user-replaceable battery or detaching the ear cushions. Sometimes you’ll need a standard Phillips head screwdriver, like when detaching the earcups from the headband.

Fairphone is offering a two-year warranty with the headphones that covers manufacturer defects like faulty USB-C charging ports or batteries. For repairs under warranty, the current aim is to send out replacement components to users for them to install themselves. Replaced components can then be sent back into Fairphone to be recycled and / or reused.

“Consciously, we don’t have a public target yet because we have no historical information about this category,” Ballester says, “This is something that we need to now assess over the next year.

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