Fair Materials 101 – Understanding the Fair Sourcing game
Maybe I’ve spent too much time playing board games in lockdown, but I’m starting to see similarities between my favorite games and my daily work at Fairphone. I’m focused on creating…
We Need A Revolution
As November rolls around, I find myself soul-searching again. With over a decade in this industry, the overwhelming avalanche of Black Friday deals and consumerist hype around this…
The Fairphone 2 is reborn… as a circular microcomputer
November 27, 2024. It’s a date we will always remember. It’s the day our beloved Fairphone 2 came back to life… in the form of the world’s first circular microcomputer. We couldn’t…
How much RAM does your smartphone need?
Did you know the classic Nokia 3310 had just 1 kilobyte of onboard memory? If we told you back then that a mobile phone could boast over 24 million times that amount today, you would…
Can we outrace the e-waste problem? Yes, we can.
2019. 53.6 million metric tons of electronic waste generated. 2022. 62 million metric tons of electronic waste generated. 2050. 110 million metric tons of electronic waste projected. These…
The new Fairbuds are getting excellent reviews
It’s been almost a month since we released our new Fairbuds to the world. With replaceable batteries in the earbuds and the charging case and a design that’s built to last, the…
We’re stopping Fairphone Easy… for now.
It is with a heavy heart that we have taken the not-so-easy decision to discontinue Fairphone Easy… at the moment, at least. Fairphone Easy’s phone-as-a-service subscription…
What are Cobalt Credits?
How Fairphone and the Impact Facility (TIF) developed a new system to enable investment into improving working conditions of artisanal cobalt miners in DR Congo. As part of our engagement…
“The Fairphone experiment is changing the tech industry.”
That's what iFixit founder and CEO Kyle Wiens thinks after tracking Fairphone's journey over the last ten years. Read what he has to say about Fairphone's transformative impact on the…
How we made our fairest battery yet for the Fairphone 5
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…