Fairphone First Edition

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Fairphone First Edition
Fairphone First Edition
developer Fairphone BV
Manufacturer Guohong
publication May 14, 2013 (presentation)
successor Fairphone 2
Technical specifications
display Capacitive touch screen with TFT display
Size: 10.9 cm (4.3  inches )
Resolution: qHD (960 × 540 pixels), 256  ppi
Main camera 8 MP
Front camera 1.3 MP
Current operating system Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with small changes
processor Version 2013 (FP1): MediaTek 6589M Quad Core 1.2 GHz (ARMv7-A / Cortex A-7 MPCore), GPU PowerVR SGX544 156 MHz
Version 2014 (FP1U): MediaTek 6589 Quad Core 1.2 GHz (ARMv7-A / Cortex A-7 MPCore), GPU PowerVR SGX544 286 MHz
R.A.M. 1  GB
Internal memory 16 GB
SAR value

0.318 W / kg

Connectivity
Cellular networks

GSM / GPRS / EDGE
850/900/1800/1900 MHz
UMTS / WCDMA 900/2100 MHz
HSPA (up to 21.1 Mbit / s)

Further radio connections

WLAN 802.11b / g / n,
Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR / v3.0 + HS

accumulator
Type Lithium-ion ,
7.4 Wh (2000 mAh)
Changeable Yes
measures and weight
Dimensions ( H × W × D ) 126 mm × 63.5 mm × 10 mm
Weight 170 g
particularities
  • some raw materials are not guaranteed from war zones
  • Neither headphones nor charger included in the basic scope of delivery
  • Dual SIM
  • Root access
  • Dragontrail glass screen

The Fairphone First Edition (German: first edition), also Fairphone  1 , model names FP1 and FP1U , is a smartphone from the Dutch company Fairphone BV , which was produced under license in China from 2013. At the end of 2017, Fairphone BV's support ended after four years. The declared goal of longevity could therefore not be achieved.

When developing the device, the focus was on longevity, procurement of metals from conflict-free mining areas, fair working conditions in production and transparency. The first generation Fairphone is a licensing model without any in-house development worth mentioning. The pre-installed operating system is a slightly adapted Android , which was developed by Kwamecorp under the name Fairphone OS . It had its own launcher and factory root access . The Fairphone can be operated with two SIM cards . It contains 16 GB of flash memory and two cameras.

License production

The contract manufacturer is based in Chongqing and belongs to A'Hong aka Changhong , a large Chinese electronics company. He paid the assembly workers in production for Fairphone a little more than usual and guaranteed them one day off a week. A small social fund was set up for the entire workforce and a works council was elected to decide how to use it.

Models

First Edition (FP1, 2013)

From May 14, 2013, the Fairphone FP1 could be pre-ordered at a price of 325 euros. When 5,000 pre-orders were reached on June 4th, Fairphone announced that it would produce 20,000 Fairphones. On September 5, 2013, the planning was increased to 25,000 devices, which were already sold out on November 13, 2013.

The delivery was originally planned for October 2013. In September this delivery date had to be postponed due to production delays. The delivery went from the end of December 2013 to the end of January 2014.

First Edition Second Batch (FP1U, 2014)

From May 2014, a second lot could be pre-ordered under the name Fairphone FP1U (“U” for update , ie for an updated version) at a price of 310 euros. 35,000 devices were produced for the second series, of which almost 23,000 devices were pre-ordered and delivered between July and September 2014. Devices were in stock for the first time from September and could be delivered shortly after the order was placed. The last devices in the series were sold and delivered in February 2015.

distribution

Sales are carried out directly through the Fairphone webshop, delivery was limited to Europe. In October 2013, Fairphone announced that it would also sell the Fairphone Second Edition for non-European markets from 2016.

The Dutch cell phone provider KPN bought 1000 units of the Fairphone FP1 and sells them together with a cell phone contract.

sustainability

Support from the manufacturer

Problems soon arose with the delivery of spare parts for the FP1 and FP1U (displays, batteries, motherboards, etc.) as well as with the maintenance of the software. A promised upgrade to Android 4.4 was not completed. The last software update was a bugfix release of Android 4.2.2 published about a year after the delivery of the FP1U. a. Fixed the Stagefright vulnerability . On July 4, 2017, Fairphone ended support for the Model 1, for which long-term support was originally intended.

  • Opened back of the First Edition, two SIM and one microSDHC slot.

longevity

Until the beginning of September 2015 it was not clear to what extent the self-imposed goal of creating a durable and sustainable smartphone that would receive software updates for more than three years would be achieved. Since the processor manufacturer MediaTek denied access to the source code of the drivers, an update of the operating system Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) to Android 4.4 ( KitKat ) or the use of alternative operating systems seemed very difficult or impossible for a long time. You should only try to deliver security updates by the end of 2016.

However, on September 16, 2015, Fairphone published a blog entry announcing access to the code and discussing options for longer operating system support or operating system changes.

On June 30, 2016, Fairphone announced in a blog post an upgrade to Android 4.4, but this no longer happened. On July 11, 2017, Fairphone informed the buyers of the First Edition that the upgrade to Android 4.4 would be abandoned and support with spare parts for this model would also be discontinued.

criticism

In some places it was criticized that the Fairphone did not contain any really fair elements and in principle hardly differed from many conventional smartphones, as well as that it used Google's Android operating system instead of alternatives such as Ubuntu Touch or SailfishOS .

Web links

Commons : Fairphone 1  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hannes Koch: Will the first socially acceptable smartphone from China live up to its name? In: Badische Zeitung . July 19, 2014 ( online - eyewitness report).
  2. ^ A b Sean Ansett: Establishing a Worker Welfare Fund with our production partner Guohong. Fairphone, May 15, 2014, accessed December 30, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i General Specifications. (No longer available online.) Fairphone, archived from the original on May 22, 2014 ; Retrieved June 19, 2014 .
  4. ↑ https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Fairphone+Teardown/20527
  5. ↑ Fairphone FAQ. Retrieved December 13, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Unknown giant wants to stir up the TV market. Handelsblatt , May 13, 2011, accessed December 30, 2015 .
  7. ^ A b Miquel Ballester: Temporal order up to the delivery of the Fairphone. September 5, 2013, accessed November 14, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Christian Wölbert: Fairphone: First batch is sold out. In: Heise online . November 13, 2013 . Retrieved November 14, 2013.
  9. ^ Bas van Abel: Production and Distribution Update. January 31, 2014, accessed January 31, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Second batch delivery begins. In: Fairphone.com. Retrieved November 15, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Fairphones in stock for the first time! In: Fairphone.com. Retrieved November 15, 2014 .
  12. ^ Our approach to developing the next Fairphone. In: Fairphone.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Fairphone 1 upgrade to Android KitKat 4.4 coming soon - Fairphone . In: Fairphone . June 30, 2016 ( fairphone.com [accessed July 19, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Software update Kola Nut 1.8.7 is ready - Stagefright fix. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Fairphone 1 maintenance comes to an end. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Why we had to stop supporting the Fairphone 1 - Fairphone. Fairphone BV, July 20, 2017, accessed July 23, 2017 .
  17. ↑ CNet-CyanogenMod: Custom ROM for the first MediaTek smartphones published
  18. ↑ Our approach to software and ongoing support for the first Fairphones. In: Fairphone.com. December 9, 2014, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  19. ^ Long-term software support for Fairphone 1. In: Fairphone.com. September 16, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Long-term support for the Fairphone 1. In: linux-magazin.de. September 17, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Fairphone 1 upgrade to Android KitKat 4.4 coming soon. In: Fairphone.com. Fairphone, June 30, 2016, accessed July 6, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Fairphone 1 maintenance comes to an end. Retrieved July 12, 2017 (English).
  23. ↑ Mobile phone tips: How fair is the Fairphone ( Memento from June 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ↑ Jürgen Vielmeier: Why the fairer traded smartphone will cause us to make decisions in the future. The initiators of the Fairphone have presented the specifications of their fair (more) traded smartphone. The values ​​don't quite reach the top, but what the Dutch are presenting is upper middle class for a clear conscience at the expected low price. Will it make us rethink? neudings.com, May 15, 2013, accessed June 24, 2013 .