▲ 385 ▼ Fairphone 5 Released (shop.fairphone.com) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by baseless_discourse@mander.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org 194 comments fedilink hide all child comments With 5 years of OS support and 8 years of security update. Related threads: https://lemmy.world/post/4130880 https://lemmy.world/post/4129394 https://feddit.nl/post/2555704
[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Fair wages for the people making the phone is also a selling point of this phone. It's not just about repairability. That said I'm also not writing this from a Fairphone, because the price is too high for me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That may be true but how are they guaranteeing this on a component level? As far as I know, they use off the shelf stuff so they only have assembly wages. And that doesn’t justify the price imo. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 point 2 years ago You can take a look at their impact reports they release every year: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Fairphone-Impact-Report-2022.pdf They keep close track of materials used and wage paid for all their suppliers. They also pay wage bonuses to the workers at some of their suppliers (page 41). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That may be true but how are they guaranteeing this on a component level? As far as I know, they use off the shelf stuff so they only have assembly wages. And that doesn’t justify the price imo. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 point 2 years ago You can take a look at their impact reports they release every year: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Fairphone-Impact-Report-2022.pdf They keep close track of materials used and wage paid for all their suppliers. They also pay wage bonuses to the workers at some of their suppliers (page 41). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 point 2 years ago You can take a look at their impact reports they release every year: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Fairphone-Impact-Report-2022.pdf They keep close track of materials used and wage paid for all their suppliers. They also pay wage bonuses to the workers at some of their suppliers (page 41). permalink fedilink source parent