Thanks for the warm welcome 
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My name is Bill Bowring,
Fairphone 2 owner since the beginning of the year, now running into problems with the distance sensor and the touch screen - no letter “i”!
Professor Bill Bowring
Barrister
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Welcome to the forum, Bill! 
Hi all!
I am Amily and a new Fairphone user here. I bought it two weeks ago and just fell in love with it. That’s awesom to have such a great support of like-minded. Hope to be useful to you, too!
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Hi everyone,
I’m Mia from Stuttgart (Germany).
I’ve first made contact with FP two years ago, when I had to play a business game at university and fellow student proposed to simulate a roll out of FP1 in the US.
Now my annoying phone is dying and I’m still considering to get a FP 
See you soon!
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There’s already been a Stuttgart Fairphoners Meeting earlier this year, initiated by @Vinni and organized by @Friek.
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Hi,
i missed out to be in the kickstarter for the first FP but given the order number 14586 I think I own a rather “old” phone, but never had a serious problem with it. The wait from july '13 to recieving a tracking code in january '14 was long but worth it - as a BS Student in CS I was curious how it would turn out. One main point for me ordering was to not have to use google for everything and I’ve never installed Googleservices on my phone - fdroid and the xda-forums had all I needed.
This said I am looking forward to the 4.4 Android update and the beta-programm for it was the reason I registered to the forum.
So, that’s some info about me.
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Hi all!! I’ve been with my brand new FP2 for a week so far! I’m really happy!! Fairphone rules!!!
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Hi
my fairphone 2 is one of or is 17418… ;).
I am used to rooted phones (e.g. cyanogen mods) so I am using open fairphone and gapps nano since it was available. I won`t take pictures with fp2, so I never tested the camera but I use sometimes Apps for photography - because I have several digital and analogue cameras - so one is always with me.
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Hi am Ames Crisler! I am a business man.
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Hi James, welcome to the forum!
Hi all,
I am Patrick and FP2 is my first smartphone. I read about it on a random somewhere in the news concerning obsolescence. I also liked to support this great idea, and well unfortunately again a great idea and good product not coming from a national located company here in Germany…Compared to other phones “available” (which excludes Googles approach…) I think Fairphone put the focus on the right attributes. Not to neglect fairness and social values, my top priority was a replaceable battery and of course new spare batteries for sale! I feel the not state-of-the-art cpu does a good job, I never run out of ram and wanted to be open to more network operators hence to this dual-sim was mandatory as well as an extra sd card slot. The announcement of Shiftphone 5 pro sounds nice, but since February I am totally served with my FP2 which I am actually “using”. It was order no. 9601.
I am interested in many things and always eager to learn more but trying to keep out of the “nerd” level for several reasons. With my new phone I am experiencing many new things of which some do surprise me when stumbling over them…just like the 2,4GHz thing…I prefer to keep things cabled by copper or fibre glass which is senseless by such an device. Up to now I do not know everything, else I would be god and not down here. But I do try to contribute if possible which may help others but also bring up discussions at some point.
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Hi! I’m Jeroen. I’m getting more and more annoyed with the wasting attitude encouraged by the smartphone manufacturers, which i why I am considering to do a one last time throwing away of an “apple-branded” phone and get myself one of your the ultimate geek phones!
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Hey Patrick,
The founer of Fairphone, Bas van Abel, is Dutch. So perhaps you can be a little bit proud on the idea that its an idea from the notheren EU ?
(As it happens one of my German colleagues pointed out the FairPhone to me)
Ciao,
Jeroen
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Hey Jeroen,
well from this point of view…EU…oh - am I, are we—YES - we are a EU member state…nice 
I appreciate people like Van Abel and if there isn´t any distrust would like to compare him with Elon Musk (neglecting the different money status). .
They don´t just do a lot of talking and bla, bla but put things into action and turn them into reality. Finally Fairphones are sold and very interesting e-cars are too. I could afford a Fairphone, but still saving money on a Tesla model 3. Up to now I had a test ride in the P90 model which almost got me out of my mind. I did not want to get out of it again.
I am eager who will place the next major impact on a commonly used/needed matter. Norway could provide 20,000MW of energy storage to Europe…Hydroelectric power, one of the cleanest ways to produce energy.
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