Fairphone 3 review: the most ethical and repairable phone you can buy
by Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#4QKN5)
Dutch firm asks 200 above the norm for a smartphone that might help change the industry
What if you could buy a phone that will last five years, can be easily repaired and is made as ethically as possible? That's the aim of the latest Fairphone 3 - and on many counts it succeeds.
Ethically creating a phone is a lot harder than it may sound, but you have to start somewhere. Amsterdam-based Fairphone turned from an awareness campaign about conflict minerals into a phone company in 2013, and aims to source as many materials as possible in both human and environmentally kind ways.
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