My name is Jonathan. I have been a advocate for Fair Trade for several years now. I was on a path to design toys for a living until I saw how workers were treated in factories. My whole world imploded. Suddenly they weren’t heroes and villains with personality but bits of plastic that some unfortunate person had to put together.
I’ve worked hard to choose fair trade and used when I can. My Cintiq is used, my closet of cloths is becoming more and more fair trade. I volunteered at the headquarters of a fair trade organization.
And I can’t stop thinking about where things come from, who made them, what were the working conditions, was the pay fair, etc. etc. It was driving me mad when I’d pick up my phone. Every time I looked at it I thought “If you REALLY cared you’d put your money where your heart is and buy a Fairphone.”
So now I’ve ordered mine. SO looking forward to it.
It’s BamskiBamski here, showing some to the Fairphone concept. Still satisfyingly using my FP1-2nd batch, running on Cherry 1.6 #yikes! Doing some conservative oldskool #IfItAintBrokeDontFixIt sh*t, but whatever
Dilemma lately: ordering a FP2 after 2 years using FP1? Yes? No? I want to support “the cause” by buying a new device, however, is keep on using my still working FP1 not even a better support of the concept?
Please, feel free and let me know what ya’ll be thinking about that dilemma (which you might also be having)?
@BamskiBamski I for one continue using my Fairphone 1 until it falls apart. Let’s show the world that even FP1 last way longer than other smart phones!
That’s a good one @Lidwien I’ll keep that one in mind
Now, I dunno exactly 4 how long u already be using ur FP2, but…whats ur experience with d FP2 sofar, compared 2 d FP1? Are u happy that u switched from FP1 to FP2?
My name is Julia and I’m not yet a fairphone user As a student, it is not yet affordable for me. I’m planning to buy a Fairphone as soon as I am earning money.
My smartphone history: After having used my good old Nokia for 5 years, I switched to a smartphone 4 years ago. I’ve renewed its battery once, then soldered a broken part. The internal memory, however, didn’t allow me to install and use more than one app, which was pretty annoying. Now I’m using the 5 years old iPhone of a friend, which is a bit more open in this respect (around 20 apps running currently). As I like to keep my things as long as possible, and thanks to ifixit.com, only parts of the iPhone are 5 years old. Plus, it’s fun to tinker around However, the microphone is giving up slowly, and exchanging the hardware will soon make no more sense.
What brings me here:
I’m following the fairphone progress since 3 years, and hope it’ll have a beacon effect on many technical items (for starters: computers). I’m hoping to learn about projects and startups similar to Fairphone, as I’d love to contribute to a more sustainable and fairer world with my daily job as soon as I’ve finished my studies. So, in case you’ve got any tipps, please share!
Welcome to the forum, @SustEng. Possession of a Fairphone is not a prerequisite of joining the movement for fairer electronics! Great that you are here in spite of owning a Fairphone yourself!
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!
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
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.
to the Fairphone concept. Still satisfyingly using my FP1-2nd batch, running on Cherry 1.6 
I’ll keep that one in mind 
As a student, it is not yet affordable for me. I’m planning to buy a Fairphone as soon as I am earning money.
However, the microphone is giving up slowly, and exchanging the hardware will soon make no more sense.
