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A phone to feel good about?

Since we were talking about sustainable product design last week, discussing the need for longevity and repairability as well as social and environmental values becoming a natural part of doing business, there seems to be a cell phone accomplishing theses issues: the Fairphone 2. It’ s a modular phone, ethically produced, open and build to last.

The only point to raise questions is why the developers have chosen Android 5.1 Lollipop with Google Apps and Google Play Store as operating system. Sure there would have been alternate solutions…