Fairphone is a social enterprise that produces smartphones in order to inspire change in the electronics industry. We started as a campaign in 2010 and with the help of our first phone in 2013, we have defined four areas in which we want to create change: mining, manufacturing, design and life cycle.In the Fairphone 2, the modular parts contributed to 12% of the CO2 emissions in production, while in the Fairphone 3, they represent only 2.3% of the emissions in production. We’re designing for repairability at an even smaller carbon overhead. On top of those savings, every time we refurbish a module, we further save lifetime CO2.Dutch social enterprise Fairphone is on a mission to prove that the environmental and social downsides of having the affordable smartphones we see today are not a necessary consequence, but rather .
The Fairphone smartphones use only fair trade, sustainably extracted or recycled materials for the construction of the phones (the latest model consists of 40% of recycled plastic ). Among the essential metals for the production of smartphones are blood minerals such as tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold.The sustainable smartphone subscription Choose your subscription Behind the Screens Experience what it really takes to create our most important personal devices - and why Fairphone is out to disrupt the electronics industry! Watch the film Recycle your old phone (s) Old phone (s) lying around? Send them in and pocket a gift card.The Fairphone 4 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G chip, which is one of the firm’s mid-range processors with 5G and has a similar level of performance to top smartphones from 2018 such as the.
By making a phone that puts social values first, we hope to spark a movement of people and organisations that together work toward an economy based on fairer principles. We are part of initiatives.
Fairphone developed the first ever ethical phone in the world with conflict-free minerals and Fairtrade gold in their supply chain. With the launch of Fairphone 2 in 2015, the company made a breakthrough in design and aims to break with the two-year cycle of the average smartphone, thus extending the lifespan of phones.“Fairphone’s mission is to set the example across our own supply chain and products, using our market demand as a catalyst for continuous improvement,” Lempers says. “This, in turn, creates a.