Fairphone’s phone subscription gets cheaper the longer you look after your phone
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#60FFG)
Last year's Fairphone 4. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Sustainable smartphone manufacturer Fairphone has announced a new subscription service that offers its latest phone, the Fairphone 4, for as little as 21 a month. Fairphone Easy is only available for customers in the company's home market of the Netherlands for now, who'll be able to rent the phone for anywhere between 3 and 60 months, but Fairphone spokesperson Ioiana Luncheon says the service could be expanded to more countries in Europe in 2023 depending on the results of this initial pilot.
The subscription service is the sustainable manufacturer's latest attempt to cut down on the environmental impact of smartphone production, and it's designed to encourage users to hold onto their existing phones for as long as possible. The...