The first Fairphone seemed pretty neat, but lousy support for alternative OS. It was of course a bit slower when compared to similarly priced units, but that's because you're not abusing third world countries quite as heavily as with other phones.

But as an Android phone, it met all functional desires (battery life, dropability, software compatibility). Except perhaps NFC, depending on if you're using that or not.

@sazius and @catninja are two !gnusocial users who have owner experience. @gus also knows another person (who should get an account!).