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Production Update: Delivery Schedule
All 29 November 2013
If you’re reading this, we can assume you have some interest in the Fairphone. Even more so, quite a lot of you have purchased the phone and by now can’t wait to hear more about delivery. You deserve a production update! We like to keep our blog open for all ...
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Taking Back Phones for a Circular Economy: E-waste in Ghana
Reuse and Recycling 21 November 2013
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. First step in this big mission: create a take-back plan that begins to address e-waste in Ghana. ...
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Tin and Tantalum Road Trip
Fair Materials 08 November 2013
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? In this blog, I’d like to explain the journey these minerals make from ...
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November Production Update
Good Working Conditions 31 October 2013
Here we are again. Giving you a rundown of what it takes to make this fair little guy arrive in Amsterdam in December. This blog will cover all things related to the latest production of the phone: the achievements, a few challenges, an overview of what the next weeks ...
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Our Approach to Research: Forming Working Groups
Reuse and Recycling 24 October 2013
While the first Fairphones are in the final stages of production and approaching the assembly period, some of us on the team are already trying to actually “quantify” the potential impact of the Fairphone and engage in many research trajectories. Yes, we know that most of you would like ...
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Fairphone Meets London: Pop-Up Space
Long-Lasting Design 07 October 2013
After a quick two weeks since our Pop-Up Space event in London, we’ve been able to catch our breath and share some outcomes of what we did there – and we made a film! Although we usually have longer blog posts, in this one we’ll be brief with a ...
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Guest Blog: The Restart Project on FP Repairability
Reuse and Recycling 03 October 2013
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 an early prototype. Keep in mind – within the constraints of our first-year funding model, we selected and licensed an existing design ...
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Fairphone Operating System
Long-Lasting Design 20 September 2013
This week, in the midst of our Fairphone Pop-Up Space in London, I’d like to share with you the story and design behind our Android-based Fairphone operating system (OS). It’s a topic that a lot of you are interested in as I’ve been hearing a lot of feedback via ...
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First Fairphone Cost Breakdown
All 12 September 2013
At last! The long-awaited, much-hyped “Cost Breakdown”. Never heard of it? Well, good. We’ve got plenty of information in this blog post to introduce you to this new idea we want to share with you: a detailed cost breakdown of your Fairphone. Our phone launching end of this year ...
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