Hello Flo,
Congrats, I, myself lived in Chartres during 15 years, now living abroad 
. Good to see some people from Chartres promoting the Fairphone. 
Hope this smartphone will make a significant change in our world who definitely needs it !!
I also have a FP3 since few months now and happy about it !
A bientôt !
Clément
Hi 
I’m Ingunn from Norway 
. When writing this, I don’t have a Fairphone yet, but it’s on its way. I’ve been following the Fairphone news since FP2, but as the FP2 was already sold out when I found the company, I’ve been waiting forever for the release of FP3 (and then for my current phone to break down, because I don’t change electronics until I have to).
I write fantasy books 
as often as I can - someday I want to publish them, too - and I love my cat, Secret. 
She’s not really mine, she’s my mother’s, but I borrow her for the time being. I have taken education in several directions, none of it finished - except for the writing course I just took. I’m also a Christian 
, and have been my whole life.
Now that I’ve joined the Fairphone forum, I look forward to get to know all of you. 
Hello everyone !
I’m Soran from France, and happy to see that I am not alone! 
I’m a team leader from a big tech corporation, but always looking out for ethical alternatives in my daily life.
As a zero waste enthusiast and (past) owner of a now dead borrowed phone, I needed a new one in phase with my new way of living and convictions.
I am now the new proud mother of a little Fairphone 3, and loving it so much already! 
Looking forward to meet everybody here and I can’t wait to take part of events !
Have a lovely day, please stay hydrated ! 
Hello! Lifelong Apple iPhone user here, have been waiting for my old phone to die for two years now so I could switch to Fairphone – been a fan of what they’ve been trying to do in the world since the company started. I worked with Greenpeace for decades and became aware of them when we started campaigning against electronic waste. I now run a small creative agency in Amsterdam working with environmental, animal rights, and humanitarian activists, and do some writing and story work with Fairphone. Totally impressed with the values they aspire to and the work they’re doing to change the industry.
Last Friday morning, my old iPhone 6s wouldn’t boot, wouldn’t restore. I tried my best to resuscitate it – knowing that the best way to keep the carbon footprint down on any phone is to make it last as long as possible. But this one was a brick. I had my new Fairphone on Saturday from BelSimpel. Migrating from Apple to Fairphone was easier, but more time consuming, than I expected: I have to recreate an entire lifestyle in my phone! The first challenge was buying a new one without my bank authorization app. Then the last four days have been an endless stream of realisations of how dependenent I am on a phone for so much of my daily routine. (Hey, how come I didn’t get a warning it was going to rain? Oh, right, I have to install BuienAlert…Can I see the lunar eclipse? Oh, gotta get Star Walk again…) But the transition hasn’t been hard, and the larger Fairphone screen than my old phone is great, and I’m in love with the universal back button (wow! I didn’t want to part ways with the Apple user experience, but this Android feature was a really pleasant surprise. And yes, I just said I’m in love with a button. 
) I’m using Alt-C to try to recreate the “Universal Clipboard” feature from the Apple ecosystem. It’s OK… but there’s an extra step before your clipboard is available between devices. Anyone have a better solution? Or any other tips for an Apple transitioner?
So glad to finally be able to say I’m a phone-carrying member of this community.
Welcome to our community! Great write-up of your initiation to Fairphone 
I just wished I or someone else here could have introduced you earlier to /e/OS which is an alternative operating system for the Fairphone and has a tad bit more of an iPhone graphical user interface. But anyway, I hope you will feel comfortable with your new Fairphone!
That would be mostly due to the Bliss launcher, which can be installed on any recent Android, so it doesn’t need a whole switch over to /e/ to get the launcher at least.
I’m in the camp of those who don’t like it, but that’s Android for you, there are other options. Here’s some info …
https://medium.com/@edevelopers.blog/meet-the-bliss-launcher-e-os-default-launcher-3346f66bc8ed
Hi I’m arobbo, currently in Australia.
I’ve registered on the Fairphone forums for one single, simple goal. BRING THE FAIRPHONE TO OZ!
I cannot believe that we aren’t already in the market zone for the company - which clearly has put the “Smart” back into “Smartphone” for all the right reasons. I like to tinker - build my own desktops, repair and upgrade laptops, I love Puppy Linux, my (vintage) 'phones run LineageOS and /e/ - because I make a firm commitment to my role in Earth’s ecosystem and will not stoop to the false economy that currently infects our planet. Bring it on home, Fairphone!
Best Wishes,
arobbo in Australia
Hi, I’m Erica Garcia from India… Accidentally, got to know about fairphone when crawling the internet. I still don’t know more about this product…However, I hope one day it will reach to the other part of the world and will be a great competitor to all the existing smartphone manufacturers
welcome to this forum.
I guess your desires are recognized by Fairphone, as the techcrunch article based on an interview with Bas von Abel shows.
Though it seems, they will be aiming at the US-market first.
If you want to learn more about fairphone, there is a real library of information on the Fairphone homepage in the category “Story”.
They have lots of reports like the new “Impact Report Vol. 2”
https://impact.fairphone.com
And you can of course search the web for reviews etc.
A first list of Fairphone articles can be found here:
(I even found an Indian homepage. 
)
Hi there!
I am Xavier, from Metz in the North-East of France (and I work in Luxembourg)
I have no FairPhone… yet… but I am interested in buying one sooner or later.
I am indeed not a big phone buyer (I have had something like 8 phones, not all smart, since 1995) and I have repaired by myself my current Huawei Mate 9 (with the main camera from the broken one of my wife), so I am already sharing the Fairness. 
Now I have created my account here today, because even if I had already heard about FairPhone long ago, it has come again in my mind this morning when I have read this article:
I hope to keep my Mate 9 a fair time, but when it will become too old, I will certainly buy a FairPhone! 
Hi all,
After many years working at Fairphone, and having been part of this adventure since I joined Bas van Abel in 2011 to start this organization from scratch, I have not been much part of the forum. We have always had great people that have been able to participate and I have been focussing in some of our impact projects. But there is some change coming and I felt it was fair to introduce myself to the community.
My background is in Product Design Engineering and Strategic design, and I am passionate about making products more sustainable but also products that can help us behave more sustainably. After being Circular Innovation Lead for some years, I’m transitioning to the Product Team as Design Lead which is exciting! I will be sitting at the beginning of product creation and will allow me to focus in integrating all I have learned about environmental sustainability and circular economy. I also host our Fairphone podcast (Fairtalks), in collaboration with our Brand Website owner Jan.
A bit more personal, I live in Rotterdam, I cycle a lot (sometimes to our office in Amsterdam), and I like cooking too much. I love close-to-reality dystopian stories, specially when they take form on a stage in a theatre.
I see you around!
Always nice to see one of the “founding fathers & mothers” of Fairphone say hello here. And glad to see you are not just staying on board, but taking on new challenges.
Hi everyone.
I’m Charlie and I’ve been after a Fairphone for years but my Samsung just would not stop working!! It finally gave up after 8 years and so I treated myself to my Fairphone 3plus a couple of weeks ago. I love it!
I work in education as a teacher and as an “Learning for Sustainability” adviser in Scotland. I’ve already done a mining workshop with teachers which was great.
I’d be keen to do an online session for teachers with guest speakers, Fairphone ambassadors, other teachers. I’d be keen to link it with Global Goals 9:Industry and Innovation, 12: Responsible Consumption and Production and 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (protecting Rights)
If anyone would be willing to help via Zoom, please let me know.
The organisation I work for is www.afairerworld.org.uk and we are one of 5 Development Education Centres in Scotland. I’m sure the other centres would like to be involved too.
Thanks,
Charlie
Hi everyone,
I’m Maro. I am an IT engineer from Germany and have interest in various IT projects, usually in context of FOSS. This led to a Stockholm syndrome-like obsession with progress bars. I couldn’t prevent myself from tinkering with the software of my first smartphone, and that trait seems somewhat written into my DNA with permanent marker. On the other hand, hardware issues need to be simple enough I can solve them by a screwdriver and patience.
Combining that with what the company Fairphone stands for brought me here. Being welcome to do with that phone whatever I want feels like coming home, and reading in that forum makes me feel I’m not the only one. So here I am. I’ll try to be helpful on places I can. Don’t be surprised to meet me near LineageOS threads and other niche topics. Let’s have a great time and enjoy ourselves!
Take care!
Welcome!
Have fun with this forum and your Fairphone.
You are totally right, that there are quite a few likeminded people in this forum and help developing alternative software/OS for the Fairphone is always welcome.
Ciao a tutti dall’Italia mi chiamo Nicola,sono un orgoglioso possessore del Fp3 da un mese,felice di fare parte della community.
Hello everyone!
I was know as the_moreira here but know my username is m_moraque, thanks to @Alex.A! My name is Mario and I am from Spain. I am a community member since june 2020 but I have known Fairphone since some years before. I think I haven’t introduced myself until know so with the username change in mind, here I am!
Hello everyone
I never introduced myself after so much time here, so let me do so!
I’m Alex, a French teenager from Nantes. I discovered Fairphone through my brother a few years ago when he bought his FP2, and then I got a FP2 New Life Edition from the last batch in June 2019. This was my entry to the smartphone and android world. I discovered more and more things and was (and still am!) enthusiast about the values and ethics of FP. I remember the first time I booted into TWRP by mistake, I was afraid of resetting my phone 
I joined the forum in February, got some useful and friendly help, and decided I would involve myself as well in helping others. And here I am!
I am also involved in some ecological projects in my town 
, I play guitar 
, theatre 
, and various other things as well.
This is also an occasion for me, as @moraquem, to introduce a change in my username, I decided to change it from @Alex21 to @Alex.A. So now please mention me as @Alex.A!
I love this 