Made with Care: Social Assessment Report
In our earlier blogs on choosing and selecting a production partner, I discussed how Fairphone wants to take a different approach in our relationships with production partners. Fairphone…
Taking Back Phones for a Circular Economy: E-waste in Ghana
Editor's Note: For this week's blog post, our community manager Joe sat down with Bibi (Research and Outreach) to talk about our ambition to address the full life cycle of the phone.…
Three Years in the Making: Road to a Fairer Phone
Three years ago, we started Fairphone as a campaign with a simple but lofty goal: to create the world’s first completely fair smartphone. This year's phone is the first step towards…
Supply chain stories: What happened with our phone displays
Phone screens break sometimes. Even when designed to be durable, and lovingly cared for by their owners, sometimes a phone just gets unlucky. The glass is tough, but not unbreakable…
Apple thinks modularity hinders device longevity. We don’t.
In a recent interview, Apple’s new head of hardware, John Ternus, was asked whether it would be conceivable to make iPhones even more modular and make them as easy to repair as a…
What is device longevity?
It’s that time of the year again. Black Friday madness is almost upon us, and brands have started to go into overdrive with the deepest discounts and price slashing. There’s one…
Guest Blog: The Restart Project on FP Repairability
Editor's Note: What's the "repairability" of the first Fairphone? In this guest post, Ugo Valluari, co-founder of The Restart Project, discusses his team's analysis and teardown of…
Rethinking plastic waste
Here at Fairphone, we envision a circular economy, where resources are used and reused in an infinite loop. So we're examining every step of our phone's life cycle and finding ways…
The search for responsibly sourced gold for the Fairphone
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…
Tin and Tantalum Road Trip
What happens when the minerals, tin and tantalum, leave their mines in DR Congo and make their way into the supply chain all across the world? And, how does it finally end up in a Fairphone?…