02 / Company & ownership
Behind the brand.
Fairphone grew from an awareness campaign about conflict minerals into a hardware company. Its modular phones prioritise repair, longer software support and progressively documented materials and factory conditions.
Sources · previous brand research
- 2013
The first Fairphone ships.
- 2015
Fairphone 2 introduces a modular architecture.
- 2023
Fairphone 5 launches with a long support promise.



