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Fairphone Meets London: Pop-Up Space
Long-Lasting Design 07 October 2013
After a quick two weeks since our Pop-Up Space event in London, we’ve been able to catch our breath and share some outcomes of what we did there – and we made a film! Although we usually have longer blog posts, in this one we’ll be brief with a ...
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Fairphone Operating System
Long-Lasting Design 20 September 2013
This week, in the midst of our Fairphone Pop-Up Space in London, I’d like to share with you the story and design behind our Android-based Fairphone operating system (OS). It’s a topic that a lot of you are interested in as I’ve been hearing a lot of feedback via ...
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Fairphone Pop-Up Space: London
All 09 September 2013
Will we see you in London next week!? At Fairphone our goal is to open up the systems to discover how our products are made. Lofty goal – but we’re doing it step-by-step when building our own smartphone. So even though our prototype isn’t our finished product, we know that ...
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Production Update: Overview of June and July
Long-Lasting Design 28 June 2013
On May 14, Fairphone began its one-month crowdfunding campaign. At that stage, we needed at least 5,000 people to pre-order a phone in order to go into production. On June 4, we reached the goal with one week left to spare. Yay! Now, two weeks after the end of ...
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Design Bootcamp: Results
Long-Lasting Design 12 June 2013
Update: Waag Society has created a booklet covering the entire span of the three-day Fairphone Open Design Bootcamp. It can be downloaded here (pdf). This blog post was written with a major contribution by Astrid van Roij-Lubsen, Concept Developer at Waag Society. The Fairphone Design Bootcamp was organized by her ...
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Fairphone Design Bootcamp: A Designer’s Perspective
Long-Lasting Design 10 June 2013
Editor’s Note: I asked designer Maarten Hertog to give his personal account of last weekend’s Fairphone Design Bootcamp. Expect a full overview of the workshop’s results in our next post. To clarify: this will NOT change the design of this year’s phone. – Joe Mier, FP Community Manager A Fairphone ...
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Fairphone T-Shirt Design Challenge
Long-Lasting Design 29 April 2013
Fairphone is going to have a good ol’ fashioned T-shirt design contest! We are gearing up for our pre-orders period in May – with a huge blast of events and buzz in the media – so we need T-shirts to give away to our fans and community members. We’ve been ...
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DroidCon Berlin: Fairphone’s Open Operating System
Long-Lasting Design 11 April 2013
Wanna play this game to win a new phone? Do you have an NFC-compatible phone? Um, errr, I’m not su— Huh?? You don’t know, well what phone do you have? Uh, an iPhone. WHAT!? Thus begins my first interaction with one of the few company booths (in this case, Intel) at DroidCon, the biggest ...
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Designing in Circles: The Great Recovery Project
Long-Lasting Design 19 March 2013
Since the Great Recovery launched in 2012, we have been travelling the length and breadth of the UK, visiting recycling plants, remanufacturing facilities, and materials mines trying to understand what happens to our products at the end of their lives. It’s blindingly obvious that with our earth’s finite resources ...
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