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Fairphone Easy: Un abonnement au smartphone pour un avenir plus juste

Non categorizzato 15 Giugno 2022

Le monde a besoin d’un nouveau modèle économique. Le secteur de l’électronique se focalise sur la vente aussi fréquente que possible de nouveaux appareils pour réaliser des bénéfices, ce qui se traduit par des cycles de vie courts pour les produits, la surconsommation et les déchets. Fairphone sait que ...

Fairphone Easy: a smartphone subscription for a fairer future
Non categorizzato 15 Giugno 2022
The world needs a new business model. The electronics industry focuses on selling new devices as often as possible to make a profit, driving rapid product life cycles, overconsumption and waste. Fairphone knows that while profit is important, a fairer, cleaner future is most important of all; we must ...
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Taking it step by step: An update on the Fairphone True Wireless Earbuds
Product 10 Marzo 2022
Since day one, we’ve been leading the push to empower consumers with viable alternatives to the make-use-dispose trend in electronics. Keeping products in use longer decreases their environmental footprint, therefore easy repairability of products is essential. No surprise that Fairphone fully supports the Right to Repair. It’s a huge ...
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My Fairphone App: Your digital sustainability tool
Community 20 Dicembre 2021
I’d like to kick things off with a quote from tech reviewer Marques Brownlee: “We only have one earth. Hot take – we should be taking better care of it!” For the better part of a decade, we’ve worked to normalize this idea in the electronics industry. However, when your ...
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Digging deep for responsible aluminum
Fair Materials 09 Dicembre 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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iFixit Guest Blog: Important Notes to Take From Fairphone’s Design Team
Long-Lasting Design 02 Dicembre 2021
Last week at iFixit we did a teardown of the Fairphone 4, which earned an exceedingly rare 10/10 on our repairability scale. During that teardown, I was impressed with many of the decisions the Fairphone design team made. With repair legislation around the corner in most markets around the ...
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Raising the bar on smartphones in the EU
Long-Lasting Design 01 Dicembre 2021
We have already proven that it is possible to make a smartphone that is more sustainable and better for people and planet. But, you know us, we always aim to improve and encourage others in the industry to follow suit. What is the next thing we are planning, you ask? ...
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We’ve scaled Fairtrade gold
Good Business 30 Novembre 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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Pioneering the path to circularity
Reuse and Recycling 24 Novembre 2021
The “circular economy”, a concept that is becoming more and more prominent in the current Zeitgeist. In short, it’s an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and facilitating the continual use of resources. A world in which we are genuinely circular is one where materials can be used, recycled ...
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Fair Tungsten: From conflict-free to building community
Fair Materials 28 Ottobre 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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