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Sticking with Cobalt Blue

All 02 March 2023

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 ...

Key information for Fairphone Crowdfunders and the Investment
Investor Relations 30 January 2023
These documents help you better understand the risks, costs, and returns of the investment. Crowd Notification AFM information document AFM informatiedocument – Dutch Subscription Agreement Fairphone BV – annual report 2021 including signed auditor’s report
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An Update on Fairphone 2
All 09 January 2023
Well friends, it is time. *Cue the music* After an unprecedented seven years of supporting our beloved Fairphone 2, we will finally stop software support for the Fairphone 2. After March 2023, we will no longer deliver software updates for the Fairphone 2. This is an incredibly bittersweet moment: the ...
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A message from our CEO
News 22 December 2022
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
Fair Materials 22 July 2022
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: a smartphone subscription for a fairer future
All 15 June 2022
The world needs a new business model. The electronics industry focuses on selling new devices as often as possible to make a profit, driving rapid product life cycles, overconsumption and waste. Fairphone knows that while profit is important, a fairer, cleaner future is most important of all; we must ...
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Taking it step by step: An update on the Fairphone True Wireless Earbuds
Product 10 March 2022
Since day one, we’ve been leading the push to empower consumers with viable alternatives to the make-use-dispose trend in electronics. Keeping products in use longer decreases their environmental footprint, therefore easy repairability of products is essential. No surprise that Fairphone fully supports the Right to Repair. It’s a huge ...
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My Fairphone App: Your digital sustainability tool
Product 20 December 2021
I’d like to kick things off with a quote from tech reviewer Marques Brownlee: “We only have one earth. Hot take – we should be taking better care of it!” For the better part of a decade, we’ve worked to normalize this idea in the electronics industry. However, when your ...
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Digging deep for responsible aluminum
Fair Materials 09 December 2021
You probably don’t think about aluminum a lot. We do – it’s one of our 14 focus materials. But we really dug deep when we decided the Fairphone 4 was going to have an aluminum case rather than plastic. And it turns out, aluminum is really interesting. Start with this: ...
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iFixit Guest Blog: Important Notes to Take From Fairphone’s Design Team
All 02 December 2021
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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