In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?
Don’t we see this post every few years, with “(X phone brand) makes repairable modular phone”, it turns out expensive, very limited, and very unpopular, or they only make five of them basically, and then it disappears into air and we do it all again a few tears later? Same thing with laptops, really.
I’d love to see a brand actually manage it, but I’m out of hope for it ever actually going anywhere.
Don’t we see this post every few years, with “(X phone brand) makes repairable modular phone”, it turns out expensive, very limited, and very unpopular, or they only make five of them basically, and then it disappears into air and we do it all again a few tears later? Same thing with laptops, really.
I’d love to see a brand actually manage it, but I’m out of hope for it ever actually going anywhere.