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To the Fairphone community – Thank You!
All 28 April 2015
This one goes out to all Fairphone owners, community members, followers, fanatics, critics and pledgers. Here’s to all of you who have pushed the Fairphone journey forward. We owe every one of you an enormous thank you for believing that we could make a change. With you behind us, we’re ...
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Fairphone moves office
News 16 April 2015
After a year and a half of searching and months of putting up with a very squishy office due to our increasing number of employees, we finally did it. We piled our belongings into a truck and moved into Fairphone’s new home. Marco from our IT team packs up the ...
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Social Assessment Program begins at our manufacturer Hi-P
Good Working Conditions 08 April 2015
In October 2014, four team members of TAOS, our assessment partner, visited the facilities of Hi-P, the production partner for the next Fairphone. They spent three days on factory walkthroughs, numerous document reviews and interviewing workers in both the factory’s cafeteria and a private meeting room. Read an update to ...
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Guest blog: Latest news on Ghana e-waste collection program
Reuse and Recycling 26 March 2015
To refresh your memory, Closing the Loop partnered with Fairphone early in 2013 to help us carry out a project to reduce electronic waste, particularly in Africa. We’ve started by collecting scrap phones in the surrounding Accra area of Ghana, which includes Agbogbloshie, one of the most toxic e-waste ...
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Looking for an open operating system at Mobile World Congress 2015
Long-Lasting Design 17 March 2015
Mobile World Congress (MWC), the biggest event in the mobile industry, took place the first week of March in Barcelona, Spain, with 90,000 attendees from 200 countries. The site spanned eight large conference halls, which felt like walking from one airport terminal to another, where a brisk walk from ...
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The search for responsibly sourced gold for the Fairphone
Fair Materials 11 March 2015
Every smartphone contains dozens of different minerals, including precious metals such as gold. Our roadmap for mining involves responsibly sourcing minerals, starting with the four internationally recognized conflict-minerals: tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold. We started our journey toward responsible mineral sourcing by integrating conflict-free tin and conflict-free tantalum from the ...
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Host an Urban Mining Workshop
All 02 March 2015
Fairphone invites you to grab your helmets and put on your safety goggles because we’re going urban mining. We’ve been conducting Urban Mining Workshops and they’ve been such a success, that we want to pass the tools over to you. Our Urban Mining Manual is now available for free ...
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The path to finding our new production partner: Hi-P
Good Working Conditions 19 February 2015
Late last year, we informed you of our intentions to develop our own phone using a new commercial model to gain control over the product design and have more influence on the ensuing supply chains. In addition to that, we wanted to ensure that the product that we would be ...
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Our approach to developing the next Fairphone
Long-Lasting Design 12 February 2015
Last week we hit a big milestone in Fairphone history. On Tuesday, we re-opened our shop to sell the final shipment of available Fairphones and within an hour and a half – we sold out! We’re extremely thankful to our group of first edition owners for making the company ...
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