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December production update: How production, workforce and delivery are intertwined
Good Working Conditions 03 Dezember 2015
As Value Chain Director, I work to increase positive social and environmental impact throughout our product’s value chain, and that’s a pretty long chain, starting with mineral sourcing, and extending through manufacturing, design and life cycle. As I’m a recent addition to the team, I’ve immediately started working with ...
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SAR, spare parts and everything you need to know about your Fairphone 2
News 25 November 2015
Update: as of October 2017, the SAR values stated here are no longer applicable, the correct Specific Absorption Rate values for the Fairphone 2 are 0.65 W/kg for the head and 1.1 W/kg for the body. During the past week the Fairphone office has been filled with excitement and anticipation as we ...
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Guest blog. iFixit on Fairphone 2: The first truly smart smartphone
Reuse and Recycling 18 November 2015
Editor’s Note: This week we hear from Matthias Huisken, the Director of iFixit Europe. iFixit is a global online repair community renowned for open source repair manuals and product teardowns. At iFixit, we’ve taken apart close to a thousand mobile phones. Here’s one that’s truly different, finally. It does not ...
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Digging deeper into the gold supply chain with our partner AT&S
Fair Materials 11 November 2015
Developing the Fairphone 2 has given us the opportunity to start working more closely with individual suppliers. Besides our first tier supplier Hi-P, we’ve recently introduced you to second-tier supplier GSN. In this blogpost, we want to update you on our efforts to open up the gold supply chain ...
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October Production and Delivery Update
News 29 Oktober 2015
In April 2015, I joined Fairphone as the Director of Operations. My role covers everything from operations strategy and customer support, to supplier management and production planning. And with the Fairphone 2 well on its way, it’s also my responsibility to keep you updated about our production and delivery ...
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Jolla community working on Sailfish OS for the Fairphone 2
Long-Lasting Design 22 Oktober 2015
At the start of the development of Fairphone 2, one of the major ambitions for the phone was to make the Fairphone 2 hardware an open development platform. What we wanted to achieve is to enable the organizations and the communities who develop various operating systems and flavors to ...
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Partnership beyond the first tier: social impact with sub-supplier GSN
Good Working Conditions 15 Oktober 2015
Fairphone 2 allows greater opportunities to build relationships and programs beyond first tier suppliers since we created our own custom design. Owning our design allows us to select more of our phone’s components, as well as reach out to and build relationships with individual sub-suppliers that share our values ...
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Getting older and wiser: Lessons learned from developing two Fairphones
Unkategorisiert 08 Oktober 2015
For those of us working at Fairphone, the past two years have been a wild ride, and we can still barely believe that we’re nearly ready to start producing our second phone! Sometimes we get so busy chasing the latest deadline that it is hard to find time to ...
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Opening up Fairphone to the community: Open source Fairphone 2
Long-Lasting Design 23 September 2015
What operating system fits Fairphone? In this post, I’d like to explain Fairphone’s next step to fairer software, discussing how we’re working to give our community more control of the Fairphone 2. As I discussed in my previous blog, Fairphone has a commitment to longevity on its devices and providing ...
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