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Fairphone 1 upgrade to Android KitKat 4.4 coming soon
All 30 June 2016
We’ve got some happy news for Fairphone 1 owners: A full upgrade to Android 4.4 KitKat is on its way! It’s been quite the journey to get this far, but thanks to the persistence of our software team, we’re almost there. Read the latest news and updates in this dedicated ...
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Releasing the Fairphone 2 Open Operating System
Long-Lasting Design 28 April 2016
Note from the editor: We wrote this post to be accessible to everyone, no matter how technical you are. If you are a developer and want to dive straight into the finer details, head over to code.fairphone.com. It’s finally here! Today we’re publishing our own version of Android for everyone ...
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From the factory to you: Packaging the Fairphone 2
Long-Lasting Design 22 April 2016
From establishing a spare parts supply chain to developing special software features, in the past few months, we’ve been sharing lots of stories about creating the Fairphone 2 and expanding our impact with our latest phone. One topic we haven’t touched on yet is packaging the phone – and, as ...
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Making the most of the Fairphone’s dual SIM functionality
Long-Lasting Design 18 February 2016
From the modular architecture and spare parts to open source software, we’ve talked a lot about what makes the Fairphone 2 unique. But there’s one useful function that we haven’t put in the spotlight recently: dual SIM. These two little SIM card slots offer lots of advantages and reduce ...
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Software features of the Fairphone 2
Long-Lasting Design 07 January 2016
Now that the Fairphone 2 is in the hands of our first owners, we want to give the entire community a peek into Fairphone’s own flavor of the operating system based on the foundation of Android™ 5.1 Lollipop. The Fairphone 2 has all the bells and whistles of the regular ...
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Jolla community working on Sailfish OS for the Fairphone 2
Long-Lasting Design 22 October 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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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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Long-term software support for Fairphone 1
Long-Lasting Design 16 September 2015
Since I last wrote about software longevity and support on the blog in December, we have continued to support our Fairphone 1 devices. Just last month we distributed a new software release that fixed the so-called Stagefright security issue. But still, one of the major concerns of Fairphone users who ...
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The architecture of the Fairphone 2: Designing a competitive device that embodies our values
Long-Lasting Design 16 June 2015
The big day is finally here! Nearly a year and a half after we started designing our new phone, we’ve released the first images and more details about the Fairphone 2. Thanks to the 60,000 people who purchased our first Fairphone and all the support from our greater community, we ...
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