Crowdfunded Fairphone goes into production

John Leonard
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New phone aims to draw attention to dire conditions in the electronics supply chain

Last week, Fairphone announced that it had sold 5,000 smartphones. This may not sound much in a world where such proclamations generally come with three more zeros attached, but for Fairphone it...

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