Dear Fairphone community, This post is to ask the community for reasons to keep trusting the fair phone movement. I bought a Fairphone 1U around 3-3.5 years ago because I thought it would be a sustainable phone but it turns out that it didn’t. I paid an astronomic amount of money that I can not af…

Dear Laura, I understand your problem, there are a few operators where you can buy an FP2 for a reasonable price together with a contract. On the other hand for me it turned out that buying the phone separately from the SIM contract (both credit and debit) makes the contract rather cheap compared t…

Dear Laura, first of all, I am afraid, I honestly can’t answer that question for you, as trust is a very personal thing. But I can tell you, that I still do trust Faiphone, although I had some problems as well with my FP1 and FP2. Here’s just some thoughts from me: [image] lrio: On one hand…

[image] lrio: I bought a Fairphone 1U around 3-3.5 years ago because I thought it would be a sustainable phone but it turns out that it didn’t. You mention you work for a charity. Fairphone on the other hand is a company that needs to be profitable to be sustainable. To trust in Fairphone, yo…

[image] ben: I suggest you keep looking in this Forum for a FP2 that is used or look for a used Apple Smartphone from your friends and family To underscore what you said let’s not forget that, as has been mentioned many times throughout this forum, the most sustainable smartphone (or any piec…

Don’t forget that 3.5 years of phone usage is pretty long when looking at the market. Most people cycle through phones every 2 years, so 3-and-a-half year isn’t bad.

Dear Laura, I think that Fairphone is trying hard to fullfill their mission to change the way mobile devices are produced, repaired and recycled. Sadly it failed to continue to provide spare parts for the Fairphone 1. The reasons were explained in this blogpost: [image] A closer look at…

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