The Dutch FairPhone has already 20,000 copies sold of his ” fairer smartphone. The FairPhone is now still not delivered: this happens only from december, so says the Dutch company.
The 20,000’th copy of FairPhone was Friday ordered, as the company announced on Facebook. The company has set itself the goal of his first ‘fairer phone’ 25,000 copies to sell. The smartphone will from december be delivered to customers, the smartphone from may could order.
FairPhone is an initiative to try the smartphone industry from the inside more durable. Per sold unit of 325 euros pays the maker 22 euro to sustainability projects. That 22 euros, to projects that tin for phones is won without the proceeds being used to a struggle to finance, a Made With Care-program for sustainable production of smartphones and costs for the open source and maintaining the source code of the software.
The FairPhone, which despite its name is still partly with the help of ‘unfair’ materials and labor being produced, is a project of the Amsterdam Waag Society and aims at fairer prices, raw materials and working conditions in the telecom sector to enforce by their own smartphones.
The FairPhone can even be changed, but for now, it is based on the HonPhone V9, an Android phone of last year. FairPhone has chosen for a faster processor from MediaTek, MTK6589 with four Cortex A7 cores, and the housing will be made of recycled plastic. The phone will have Android Jelly Bean running with own software of FairPhone over it.
