Fairphones are awesome, and they even come with a de-googled version of android. Also: Made in Holland!

microtonal 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The default OS is not de-googled Android though, but regular Android. You have to buy the /e/OS variant, which is slightly more expensive (or flash it yourself).

But with the long-term support and access to spare parts (the university can stock them), this seems like a good move. Also happy for FairPhone that they are getting more traction.

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retired 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Made in Suzhou, China.

As far as I know only Gigaset and HMD manufacture in Europe. And even those two only do final assembly in Europe, the components are still made in China.

Technically Fairphone could ship you a box of parts and have you assemble the phone yourself. Then it would be "Made in Europe" (or where-ever you live).

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microtonal 6 hours ago | parent [-]

So? Step by step. Once the FairPhone gets a large-enough market, they may be able to move parts of the production to Europe.

Perfect is the enemy of the good (it also took HMD a while to have a model that was manufactured in Europe).

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Jolter 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You’re not wrong, but honest question: do Fairphone actually have EU manufacturing as a goal? First I’ve heard of it.

	▲	Vinnl 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm fairly sure they don't; at least historically, the goal has been to improve the situation on the ground, not to move production elsewhere. (I think this was the post in which they explained that thinking, but I didn't reread it just now: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/10/15/lets-talk-about-fair...)

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jcattle 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

*designed in holland

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isodev 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the province* Holland, but the country The Netherlands :)

	▲	retired 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Technically correct but Holland has long been used as a strong branding name for the entire country. It wasn't until recent that they started to make a better distinction between the two. Philips, ASML, Inventum and many other companies used "Made in Holland" on their products despite not being in the provinces of North and South Holland.
	▲	mvdwoord 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Pars pro toto... ;)

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pjmlp 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Partially, AOSP is still made by Google.

This no different from the fallacy of using Chrome and VSCode forks.