• Fairphone is the first company to pilot Fairmined Gold credits

    Fairphone is the first company to pilot Fairmined Gold credits

    Through our Fairmined gold credits pilot with Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) we celebrate multiple wins alongside contributing to the social and environmental progress of the Fairmined certified mining cooperative La Gabriela in Colombia.   Win for responsible miners: Since 2016, Fairphone has been working hard to connect responsible ASM gold to ...

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  • Sticking with Cobalt Blue

    Sticking with Cobalt Blue

    A call upon the industry to engage more – not less! – in ASM cobalt mining. Seven years after Amnesty International’s report “This is what we die for”, cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is again in the headlines, with a focus on the continuous dangers and ...

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  • Software-Support Fairphone 2 endet 2023

    Software-Support Fairphone 2 endet 2023

    Liebe Freunde, es ist an der Zeit. *Trommelwirbel* Nach sagenhaften sieben Jahren Support unseres geliebten Fairphone 2 werden wir den Software-Support für das Fairphone 2 endgültig einstellen. Nach März 2023 werden wir keine weiteren Software-Updates für das Fairphone 2 liefern. Dies ist ein bittersüßer Moment für uns: Das Fairphone 2 ...

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  • A message from our CEO

    A message from our CEO

    Dear all, I’m reaching out to share some tough news with you. It’s something that’s been weighing on my mind, and – led by one of our core values – it’s important to be transparent about it. We recently discovered that two employees privately received commission payments from a third-party ...

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  • Five years of responsible gold

    Five years of responsible gold

    For the past five years, Fairphone has been an active participant in a broad coalition within the Dutch gold sector aimed at ensuring greater respect for human rights, the environment and biodiversity in the gold value chain. This “gold covenant” was spearheaded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

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  • Fairphone Easy: Das Smartphone-Abonnement für eine fairere Zukunft

    Fairphone Easy: Das Smartphone-Abonnement für eine fairere Zukunft

    Die Welt braucht ein neues Business Modell. Die Elektronikbranche fokussiert sich auf den Verkauf möglichst vieler neuer Smartphones, um Gewinn zu erzielen. Dies führt zu kürzeren Lebenszyklen der Produkte, Überkonsum und Abfallbergen. Fairphone weiß, dass Profit wichtig, eine fairere, sauberere Zukunft jedoch das Wichtigste von allem ist. Wir müssen ...

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  • iFixit Guest Blog: Important Notes to Take From Fairphone’s Design Team

    iFixit Guest Blog: Important Notes to Take From Fairphone’s Design Team

    Last week at iFixit we did a teardown of the Fairphone 4, which earned an exceedingly rare 10/10 on our repairability scale. During that teardown, I was impressed with many of the decisions the Fairphone design team made. With repair legislation around the corner in most markets around the ...

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  • Raising the bar on smartphones in the EU

    Raising the bar on smartphones in the EU

    We have already proven that it is possible to make a smartphone that is more sustainable and better for people and planet. But, you know us, we always aim to improve and encourage others in the industry to follow suit. What is the next thing we are planning, you ask? ...

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  • Into the deep

    Into the deep

    Remember our Materials 101 series of blogs where we introduced the distinction between artisanal mining (ASM) and large-scale mining? Well, potentially, there is another type of mining to enter the mix: deep-sea mining or DSM. How does DSM connect to responsible, fair materials? The answer is not so easy ...

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