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How we made our fairest battery yet for the Fairphone 5
Fair Materials 07 December 2023
We are very proud that with the Fairphone 5, we have also launched our fairest battery yet. Possibly even the fairest smartphone battery on the market – at least based on the information that is publicly available. Batteries are a crucial part of the global transition to renewable energy. That ...
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This is our fairest battery yet.
Fair Materials 30 October 2023
Your smartphone is only as good as your battery. And the Fairphone 5’s battery is better than the best. It’s technically on point of course. With a capacity of 4200 mAh and 30W fast charging capabilities, you can juice up your Fairphone faster than ever before. And if you ...
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Is the Fairphone 5 the most sustainable phone in the world?
Product 30 August 2023
After two years of designing and prototyping and endless development meetings, I am immensely proud to finally unveil to the world the brand new Fairphone 5. The team at Fairphone has spent countless hours to bring our latest flagship to life, making it faster, thinner, but more importantly, fairer ...
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Fairphone is the first company to pilot Fairmined Gold credits
Fair Materials 13 April 2023
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
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 ...
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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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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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We’ve scaled Fairtrade gold
Fair Materials 30 November 2021
We have paved the way to source more Fairtrade gold! Together with Fairtrade, we have partnered with Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. in Japan in order to integrate more Fairtrade gold into our supply chain. Our relationship with Hirose and Fairtrade continues our support of ASM gold projects and miners. ...
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Fair Tungsten: From conflict-free to building community
Fair Materials 28 October 2021
Studies show we’re making an impact in Rwanda In the north of Rwanda, near the city of Kidao, one of the country’s oldest tungsten mines is proving us right. Fairphone started out as a campaign to prove the phone industry could stop using materials that finance conflict and human rights abuses. ...
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