Unlike most other phones that we review, it’s hard to really compare Fairphones to leading smartphone manufacturers like Apple or Samsung. Since the Fairphone brand is built around the pillars of sustainability and fair wage labor (rather than building cutting-edge hardware or software) the performance of any Fairphone will lag behind any Samsung or Apple equivalent. But we’re not saying that to discourage you, we just want you to be aware that Fairphone is not at the cutting edge when it comes to delivering top-of-the-line performance or software upgrades. But the Fairphone excels at doing something that no other smartphone can currently do: giving you a smartphone that can be easily upgraded by swapping internal modules.