Fairphone 1 maintenance comes to an end

The community:

  • seems to be very supportive of the FP ideals
  • very disappointed with the sudden end of FP1 support (especially batteries)
  • FP1 batteries seem to be the real problem to allow FP1’s to continue life (could be a good portion of 60000 still in use) (not junk usable FP1 phone due to no battery)
  • willing to contribute cash, pre-ordering, crowd funding for batteries
  • knowledge that there are batteries producing companies that could be approached if funding available
  • the HB5N1H battery is close, works, needs proper testing, may need temp/mgmt
  • multiple producers make this battery, could be approached with the FP1 specs (and likely make a usable battery with little development)
    —see some informal testing coments in 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Generic battery to replace FP1 battery (⚠️see first post for warning) @Stefan
    Let’s try to prolong the FP1 lifetime and story and ideals
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