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Fairphone’s repairable wireless earbuds put the industry on notice
Fairbuds are true wireless earbuds with replaceable batteries. Your move, Apple.
The Fairphone 5 is boring… how exciting!
The new Fairphone carries the same design as its predecessor with a bigger battery, better display and more powerful internals. But, as the mobile industry slows down, its strengths make it easier to mask its flaws.
The modular Fairphone 4 arrives in the US for the first time
Fairphone is at long last bringing its sustainability-focused smartphones to the US. The company has teamed up with Murena to start offering a 'deGoogled' version of the Fairphone 4 in the country. It's available starting today for $599.
Fairphone launches a fully repairable set of over-ear headphones
Fairbuds offers decent, if not flawless sound, but you'll be able to keep them running in perpetuity.
Fairphone swings for the fences with its newest smartphone
The Fairphone 4 gets 5G, a double-camera setup and a much nicer design.
Framework’s modular DIY laptop is available to pre-order
Each module is replaceable, which should hopefully make it last for a lot longer.
The repairable Fairphone 2 gets an Android update five years after launch
Ethical phone company Fairphone's first modular handset, the five-year-old Fairphone 2, is getting an Android 9 update.
Startup designs a modular, repairable laptop
Framework wants to apply the Fairphone model to laptops.
Even an idiot can repair a Fairphone
It turns out, even the most screwdriver-averse person can upgrade a Fairphone.
Fairphone updates its ethical, modular phone with new cameras
The Fairphone 3+ is modular, repairable and ethical, but even with new cameras, it'll struggle to best a similarly-priced Pixel.
Fairphone 3 can now be bought with a ‘de-googled’ OS
Do you want an ethical smartphone that blocks Google's services? Fairphone seems to think so.
Fairphone 3 is the 'ethical' smartphone you might actually buy
Doing the right thing is often framed as giving up something. You're not enjoying a vegetarian burger, you're being denied the delights of red meat. But what if the ethical, moral, right choice was also the tastiest one? What if the smartphone made by the yurt-dwelling moralists was also good-looking, inexpensive and useful? That's the question the Fairphone 3 poses.
The Fairphone 3 packs in features while keeping its green credentials
Fairphone, the company that wants to get ethically-responsible smartphones into the hands of consumers worldwide, has unveiled the third iteration of its modular device. Fairphone 3, launched under the tagline, "The phone that dares to be fair," is available for pre-order now, and boasts some pretty decent specs that put it on par with more well-established devices.
Fairphone's ethical smartphone gets Android 7
Nearly three years after ethical smartphone company Fairphone launched its Fairphone 2 handset, the Dutch social enterprise has announced it's now compatible with Android 7.1.2, aka Nougat. This might seem like old news, given that most smartphones are now munching on Android Pie, but the time and money spent upgrading the phone to even this level is indicative of the sustainability challenges still prevalent in the smartphone market.
You can’t buy an ethical smartphone today
Any ethical, non-🍏 📱 recommendations? It all started with a WhatsApp message from my friend, an environmental campaigner who runs a large government sustainability project. She's the most ethical person I know and has always worked hard to push me, and others, into making a more positive impact on the world. Always ahead of the curve, she steered me clear of products containing palm oil, as well as carbon-intensive manufacturing and sweatshop labor. That day, she wanted my opinion on what smartphone she should buy, but this time requested an ethical device. Until now, she's been an HTC loyalist, but wanted to explore the options for something better and more respectable. My default response was the Fairphone 2, which is produced in small quantities by a Dutch startup, but I began to wonder -- that can't be the only phone you can buy with a clear conscience, can it?
Greenpeace blasts Amazon over poor environmental practices
Greenpeace has made a tradition out of raking companies over the coals when their environmental practices fall short of its standards, and that's truer than ever in the activist group's latest electronics report card. The organization didn't list any major company whose environmental stances (including renewable energy, sustainable products and toxin-free materials) were good enough to merit an "A" grade, and four companies earned an unflattering "F" -- including internet giant Amazon. According to Greenpeace, Jeff Bezos' brainchild falls well short on most marks.
Fairphone will stop supporting its first 'ethical' phone
Fairphone has announced that it will no longer be supporting the Fairphone 1, which first hit the market in 2013. That means the company won't be supplying spare parts for the phone any longer and has ceased developing the Android software update.
Greenpeace and iFixit slam smartphone companies over e-waste
Greenpeace likes to keep tabs on tech companies, highlighting where they're going wrong when it comes to clean technology and how they can improve. Earlier this year, the organization released its report on how the IT sector consumes energy and they ranked a number of companies on both their energy consumption practices as well as their transparency. Greenpeace's latest report takes on mobile devices and how repairable companies make their products.
Fairphone's easy-to-fix handset relaunched with a slim cover
Most smartphones are doomed to the scrap heap several years after they're new, because glued and soldered parts make them too pricey to repair. With the modular Fairphone 2 handset, on the other hand, you can replace the screen in a minute without tools, and other modules can be swapped with a screwdriver. In fact, iFixit gave the device a perfect 10 for repairability. The company behind it has refreshed the device, and released its first replaceable component: the cover
Inhabitat's Week in Green: Ford's self-driving cars, and more!
Energy bills tend to spike in the wintertime, but this incredible UK home costs just $2 a month to run. The secret? Tons of insulation and a massive set of rooftop solar panels. We also spotted a futuristic Russian dome home that's able to withstand massive loads of snow, and a team of Finnish engineers are building the world's longest ice bridge at the start of next year.
