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Fairphone

Long-lasting smartphones and accessories that benefit the planet

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Why it worked

The video leverages a popular TikTok trend of "build your own X" games, making it interactive and encouraging engagement through likes, comments, and follows. The focus on a repairable phone like Fairphone appeals to a niche audience interested in sustainability and DIY tech.

Summary

The video shows a step-by-step disassembly of a Fairphone, highlighting its modular design and repairability. It uses a "build your own phone" game format where viewers select components based on the last digit of their likes, comments, and follows.

Structure

1Introduction with "build your phone" game
2Disassembling the phone, starting with the battery
3Removing the screen and speaker assembly
4

Original caption

build your own phone (semi niche) #creatorsearchinsights #nothingphone #samsung #iphone #s26

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Product placement

Fairphone: ACTS - it is the phone being disassembled. Removing it would change what happens in the video. Fairphone: APPEARS - it is printed on the battery. Removing it would not change what happens in the video.

On-screen text

build your phone: 1. Apple 2. Samsung 3. Google 4. Meizu 5. Fairphone 6. Nothing 7. Sony 8. Solarin 9. Freedom 0. HTC (last digit after you like) 1. 16 Pro Max 2. S26 Ultra 3. Pixel 11 4. 21 Note 5. 5.5 6. Phone (3) 7. Xperia 1 VI 8. Fire Phone 9. Hydrogen 0. U24 Pro (last digit after you comment) 1. Ultra 2. Pro Max 3. Fold 4. Flip 5. GT 6. Neo 7. Compact 8. Explorer 9. Lite 0. Mini (last digit after you follow) securing the battery and one after you up, top with the flex cable after you disconnected fully revealed and can be after you removed the single screw and bracket after you underneath the screen itself Removing the speaker assembly the highly modular USB-C port, which is awesome if you ever have a failure due to mechanical wear But the front facing camera and the twin rear facing cameras are all immediately accessible the moment with all those components out, there's nothing stopping me from removing the mainboard