Fairphone, the “ first completely fair smartphone ”

Fairphone, an initiative that plans on making a smartphone without harming the planet and its inhabitants, is now taking pre-orders, so it can start the manufacturing process.

 
5,000 pre-orders are needed for the company to start manufacturing the smartphone, which looks good in terms of specifications. It has a 4.3-inch qHD display (960 x 540 pixels resolution), a MTK6589M quad-core CPU at 1.2GHz, paired with 1GB of RAM, as well as 16GB of internal memory, expandable via the microSD slot. The main camera is an 8-megapixel one, while the front one is 1.3-megapixels. Fairphone is a dual SIM smartphone, which runs Android 4.2.

Why is it special?

While those specs might look alright, they probably won't be the reason why you'd want to buy the Fairphone. You can actually help to make a difference by getting a smartphone that's built according to a set of fair principles.
These include suppliers that have good working conditions and recycling practices that are safe for the environment, as well as not including materials in the device that cause conflicts. That means that the metals used in your device won't help illegal groups get financed.And made from recycled material so that environment is also not harmed.