Fairphone

Fairphone is a social enterprise with the aim to develop a smartphone designed and produced with minimal harm to people and planet. The main motivation for founding Fairphone was to develop a mobile device which does not contain conflict minerals and with fair labor conditions for the workforce along the supply chain.
The fairphone is a a smart phone that is built to last using open, responsible design. It adresses the full lifespan of mobile phones, including use, reuse and safe recycling.
The project raised money for the initial batch of phones through pre-orders, reaching the required 5000 on 5 June 2013. The project proceeded to sell all 25,000 of its initial production run on 13 November 2013, via pre-orders, nearly a month in advance of the revised release date. A second production run of 35,000 phones was released for sale on 21 May 2014. A follow-up model, the Fairphone 2, is designed for modularity and repairability, further increasing its circularity.

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• Country: Netherlands
• Sectors:
  • Electronics
• Maturity level: Growing