Fairphone
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Highlights:
- Fair trade tantalum, tin, gold working directly with certified mines in the Congo, Zaire, and Peru.
- Replaceable parts
- High cost
- Closed hardware
- Open software
Links
- Modular smarphone on Wikipedia - [1]
- Modular libre laptop - EOMA68
- Forksand - libre laptop by Jeff Moe of Lulzbot
OSE Assessment
- Fairphone scores a middle score on the OSE Specifications Score, about 50%
- Main pros: open source software (not completely), fair trade components, longer lifetime, replaceable components.
- Main cons: closed hardware design, not distributive enterprise, high cost. Low recursion level, such as not using MLCC [2] instead of tantalum to avoid Congo all together.