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The Fairphone 2 is a phone for those who don't want to have to deal with the gnawing guilt that their phone is, in a small way, terrible for the planet and the human race as a whole. It is rather a ...

Are you sick of having smartphones that can’t be repaired? You wind up creating e-waste instead of just fixing the darn thing up and using it for another year, and that’s just annoying. Enter the ...

Google, Qualcomm, and companies like Samsung are working to ensure that smartphones receive operating system and security updates for longer – buy a new Samsung phone today and it should still get ...

A growing number of smartphone makers are promising to deliver major operating system updates and security updates for at least three to five years. But a small Dutch company called Fairphone has ...

The idea that Android smartphones can’t be updated long after their supposed “shelf life” is one that persists. However, not for sustainable smartphone brand Fairphone, as the firm is pushing the ...

The 2015-era FairPhone 2 has received a new, stable Android update. FairPhone’s device is now running Android 10, almost seven years after its release. The company told Android Authority that the ...

At a time when Android OEMs are steadily increasing device support windows, it’s impressive to see that a device from 2015 is only now hitting the end-of-life phase. The device in question is the ...

Inside their sleek exteriors, phones are made from dozens of minerals and metals that are extracted and assembled together in ways that might make you cringe. The materials that make our phones work ...

The sustainable smartphone manufacturer had originally hoped to offer three to five years of updates for the handset from its release in late 2015. The sustainable smartphone manufacturer had ...

The first thing that greets your eyes when you open the packaging of the Fairphone 2 is a simple message: “Yours to open, yours to keep.” For added emphasis, these words are printed on the inside of ...