Will fairness be accessible for me?

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My “facts” and “random thoughts about the costs and fairness of the FP2”

  1. FP1U and FP2 use the same two “fair” source materials. Currently gold/tungsten is being research as well. There is currently no list in which one could look up the different fair materials included in each piece of hardware. Anyone interested in doing this?

  2. The FP2 just costs more to begin with: €230.30 “just the parts”, Resellers and taxes add €100 more. So now all the other stuff (Patents, Software, development, operations) go on top of all that. Therefore, this new phone is automatically more pricey.
    As far as I know, there is no list comparing the different costs of both phones. That would be interesting.
    FP2: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fairphone2-Cost-Breakdown.pdf
    FP1: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Fairphone_Cost_Breakdown_and_Key_Sept2013.pdf

I have the feeling that with all the new, heavy patented stuff (The “IP” costs are four times the workers pay) the SoCs are getting more expansive. I’m not sure, but I think a mediatek SoC is very cheap compared to a Snapdragon. But I never saw these numbers published anywhere. Is someone here able to look this up? I wonder if the OEM gets the reduction for all the SoC he buys, but never gives that back to the people only buying a few phones … I’m sure they use a lot of Qualcomm chips at Hi-P. But there a not a lot of reports about the OEMs here.

  1. This is why I care so much about the software. It’s a good phone, very similar to existing ones that proofed that they are good about a year ago. And it’s modular.

  2. The FP1 cannot be rescued without mediatek and they don’t care anymore. But if this path is secured for the FP2 it is at least worth its money, because parts can be replaced and it will last a long time.

  3. But for me, the FP2 is no more “fairer” than the FP1. And the is the part that makes me write here so much. It’s a better phone, but not with more fairer parts (at least that I know of). It just got more “advanced technology”.

  4. With all this compared, it will be the software that will decide about its longevity and therefor its real “value”.

There will be an update about the software soon:

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