It advertises that you get a new phone already after 1 year, and not after 2. Besides that even 2 years is not very long in the lifetime of a phone, 1 year is just a shame.
I am very glad that my operator is not jumping onto this train, but I fear that the other providers sooner or later will advertise the same “crime”. I do think that Fairphone should cooperate with national mobile network providers, but not in such a case. They shouldn’t ever work together with T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom. Their behaviour sickens me.
The worst thing about this whole “get a new phone every 2 years” thing is that while the technological advancements made in 2 years are substantial, they are completely wasted on 99% of the phones sold.
Most people still use their phones for calling, text messaging, synching their agenda’s and gaming goes little further than Flappy Bird or Words with Friends. In other words: nothing that requires 2.5GHz octo-core CPU’s.