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Definition: Fairphone


An Android smartphone from Amsterdam-based Fairphone that is user repairable. The company was founded in 2013 with the goal of using materials from honorable sources that do not harm people or the planet. Fairphone also advocates for worker's welfare and supports the reuse of its products. Electronic waste is reduced wherever possible. See repairable smartphone.




Nothing Is Glued Together
Easy to take apart, users can repair their modular Fairphones on their own. This opened phone is the Fairphone 5, which debuted in 2023 with a Qualcomm processor. (Image courtesy of Fairphone.)