ALL THE BIGGEST STORIES FROM PLANET TECH
HOT FIVE #1
FIXING A WHOLE
There’s a famous scene in Only Fools and Horses where Trigger, a pal of Del Boy and Rodney who works as a roadsweeper, has been given a medal by the council for using the same broom for 20 years. The problem is, in that time Trigger’s ‘same’ broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles. Well, if Trigger had a smartphone it’d surely be a Fairphone 5. With 10 parts that can be replaced easily by the owner, including the 6.46in 90Hz OLED screen, the 4200mAh battery and both the 50MP main and 50MP ultrawide camera sensors, it’s Fairphone’s most repairable model yet – so you can keep it as good as new for as long as the octa-core Qualcomm QCM6490 CPU, Adreno 642L GPU and 8GB of RAM can keep it ticking over. Fairphone guarantees at least five OS upgrades to the untouched version of Android 13 it runs out of the box, so it should last until at least 2028, but it’ll still be supported until 2031 at the earliest. If you can do even better than that and keep it going for 20 years, you might even be eligible for a medal. Just ask Trigger. As hot as… Del Boy’s first date with Raquel £619 / fairphone.com
Being for the benefit of gigabytes
There’s256GBofstorageon board,buttheSDcardslotcan support up to 2TB cards if you want to expand it. The slot itself is also replaceable.
With a little help for my friends
Fairphone uses as many fair-mined and recycled materials as possible, while the workers making the phones are paid living wage bonuses.
A spray in the life
This fifth iteration is the thinnest and lightest Fairphone so far, and the weatherproofing has been upped to IP55, which should also help extend its lifespan.
Don’t go shaking my part
The wheels are controlled via a complicated-looking internal mechanism that runs almost the entire length of the fuselage, which should make for a fun build.
Something about the way you took to height
You get a display stand with a plaque that details some astonishing Concorde facts and figures, most notably its cruising speed of 1338mph.
I guess that’s why they call it the blue
The model wears Concorde’s prototype and pre-production livery, but the real thing took to the skies in British Airways and Air France colours in 1976.
HOT FIVE #2
MANY AND THE JETS
You’ve got about as much chance of a Gloucester Old Spots sprouting a pair of wings as you have of seeing Concorde take to the skies again, but you can clap eyes on one any time you want if you buy this Lego Icons model.
The 2083-piece replica, which lands just in time to mark the 20th anniversary of the supersonic passenger plane’s final flight, has the trademark pointed nose that can be tilted for take-off and landing, while a twist of the tail cone raises and lowers the landin
