European sustainable smartphone brand Fairphone is dipping a toe in the US market by making its flagship repairable handset available to buy there for the first time via another collaboration with e/OS, a French privacy-focused not-for-profit open source OS maker that offers a “deGoogled” mobile operating system.
The Dutch ethical electronics social enterprise remains focused on selling modular kit in its home region. But announcing a pilot to sell one of its smartphone models in the US today — namely the Murena Fairphone 4 with /e/OS — it said it’s keen to learn more about the market where it’s seen some interest in its devices.
The Fairphone 4 was first released in Europe back in September 2021. And while, at a glance, it can look like a pretty typical (slightly chunky) Android smartphone its superpower is that it’s modular by design — meaning it’s repairable and upgradeable without the need to buy a whole new handset.
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