I can only speculate it’s an outdated number, although even the all-time total from a year ago (516,437) differs from it. The sole difference between my graph and Fairphone’s Impact Report 2023 (page 15) numbers is the 2018 total (mine is 89 devices higher than theirs) – way smaller than the 516 K vs. 506 K difference.
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It’s probably a marketing number, meaning an approximative-but-realistic-looking number they throw out to dazzle the public…
It doesn’t need to be real, as long as it looks real (due to its perceived precision: It’s 506176 users, not 506175 or 506177…).
Oh well, “overenthusiastic” marketing statements are customary for Fairphone…
I have just realised that @urs_lesse mentioned including devices sold to resellers as sold, which does not have to be included in the proper number of Fairphone users.
Plus the FP team has access to the number of people using my Fairphone App, especially those registered for the keep club ( I remember vaguely it’s only foe FP OS and obviously not everyone registered for free goodies but still)
In the impact report they mention yet another figure, 400 thousands or so.
It’s always intriguing when you work with datasets and realise they can’t match or be compared cause people talk about different versions of the same concept
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Hello!
Do you have any idea of the proportion sold between 128/6Gb and 256/8Gb FP4 ?
If the “light” one was sold more, it could explain they went the same way for FP5 
Would you mind helping me finding those (current) numbers (from Fairphone not guestimated by the FP community).
Now and then Fairphone do feel like sharing some approximate numbers but it’s far away from offering a solid and frequent transparency (sales) report with all the exact numbers… do you have more insight?
I’m looking for something like
…
2020 FP1: 0 FP2: 0 FP3: 4757 FP4: 765 FP5: 0 FBXL : 0 …
2021 FP1: …
…
I think others might be interested too. Maybe there is already a thread pointing to realistic (not approximate marketing) numbers but I couldn’t find it yet.
…is a good start though for anyone who’s generally interested (then again brought to you by the community and sadly not by Fairphone directly). Albeit not really showing ever so rising numbers which you mentioned. More like stagnating at 90.000 FP units per year…
Numbers posted (sure only for phones not all devices thus not all Customer) in the topic you linked are as far as I understand based on FPs impact reports (which is not marketing in my eyes), thus FPs numbers and not community estimates. Still I see increasing numbers ,as discussed in the other topic as well, e.g. when the industry numbers decreased FP numbers increased. Overall this was completely off-topic in the A14 topic, thus I moved it here.
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