🇬🇧 Interesting links / news articles somehow related to Fairphone

Ingo · June 29, 2021, 3:15pm

Ok, so there’s gonna be a “green” smartphone by Samsung in 2022…
I hope everyone remembers who got there first

Deutsche Telekom and Samsung are entering into a strategic partnership for sustainability. In this way, the two companies want to bring the topic in the telco industry out of the niche and into the mass market.

The core of the collaboration is the development of a green smartphone suitable for the mass market. It will support 5G technology and be designed to be sustainable. This includes easy repair and a removable battery. The smartphone is planned for the end of 2022.

BertG · June 29, 2021, 3:26pm

It’s just strange, that a thing like a removable battery - that has been (and still is) standard for decades in all kinds of electronical devices, suddenly becomes something to announce, like it’s a new development.
smh

And nothing about social aspects like child labor and minimum wages. Just the ecological aspect.

Edit:
The telekom-article is linking to another one regarding a new initiative: “Ecorating”

And here’s the homepage of this ecorating project for smartphones:

Fairphone - so far - does not participate. They state, that - so far - around 80 devices have been rated. But there is no list of those devices (at least none, that I found).
So, maybe, it’s up to the manufacturers to decide if they want to advertise their phones with the rating.

Edit 2:
The German Telekom shop offers just one phone with an ecorating 73/100; the Oppo Find X3 Neo 5G.

Paule · June 29, 2021, 8:07pm

Deutsche Telekom also announced a deeper cooperation with Fairphone:

https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/telekom-and-fairphone-expand-cooperation-630604

angry_dodo · June 30, 2021, 8:32am

This article is in German
https://www.golem.de/news/green-it-fairphone-macht-wieder-gewinn-2106-157737.html
but it essentially just covers the numbers released from fairphone here

David_Fernandez_Pina · July 1, 2021, 3:23pm

What I remember is the workers that got cancer in Samsung factories: NOTICIAS SAMSUNG Samsung se disculpa por el cáncer entre sus trabajadores y paga indemnizaciones
And the toxic culture in the company: The exploding Note 7 is no surprise – leaked Samsung doc highlights toxic internal culture • The Register
But maybe they are changing… or maybe it is just green washing.

JeroenH · July 2, 2021, 2:01pm

Because Apple and Samsung innovated the non-removable battery (which is still removable, just takes effort), as well as small-size, and waterproof IP ratings which meddle with the concept of a user replaceable battery.

silentlennie · September 7, 2021, 9:23pm

anon9989719 · September 7, 2021, 9:33pm

Well it’s a good job Fairphone have the edge on Fair trade as there are other modular phones.

kanishka · September 12, 2021, 10:17pm

I emailed that address and I didn’t get a reply.

UPPERCASE · October 3, 2021, 7:03am

AlbertJP · October 11, 2021, 6:25pm

Fairphone made it to Linus Tech Tips:

DeepSea · October 11, 2021, 8:23pm

They even give credits to the forum:

grafik

JeroenH · October 11, 2021, 8:55pm

Android 12 got released, and AOSP based on it.

It cripples the adb backup command!

LineageOS seedvault should (?) still work but its not the default OS for Fairphone’s devices.

AnotherElk · October 11, 2021, 9:17pm

adb backup is sporting a “deprecated” label for a while already and it isn’t exactly a pillar of reliability.

UPPERCASE · October 12, 2021, 4:27am

EightyEightyEight · October 12, 2021, 12:18am

Looks like the king of RTR in the United States has finally sunk his teeth into Fairphone. I believe this is one step closer in getting this amazing phone to the United States.

UPPERCASE · October 12, 2021, 5:26am

RTR? What does that mean?

Agno · October 12, 2021, 5:42am

Right to repair, I think

EightyEightyEight · October 12, 2021, 10:42am

Sorry! We Americans love our abbreviations! Lol… RTR = right to repair

UPPERCASE · October 14, 2021, 11:19am