The Fairphone 1 is a touchscreen-based, slate-sized smartphone designed and manufactured by Fairphone. It was released running Android 4.2.2 “Jelly Bean”, with the Fairphone OS skin. It was the first phone from the social enterprise Fairphone, announced on 14 May 2013 and shipped beginning in December 2013.

The project raised money for the initial batch of phones through pre-orders, reaching the required 5,000 on 5 June 2013. It sold the entire initial production run of 25,000 handsets on 13 November 2013, nearly a month in advance of the revised mid-December release date.

In November 2013, one of the developers of Replicant wrote a blog post in which they said that Replicant could work on the Fairphone and the bootloaders (that are not part of the operating system) may even be free software. The Fairphone team seemed “definitely interested” in helping get Replicant running on the device.

A second production run of 35,000 phones was released for sale on 21 May 2014. 3D Hubs and Fairphone partnered in July 2014 to offer locally produced 3D printed cases. The last batch of devices of the second production run was sold in February 2015. No more Fairphone 1 were produced, with the company focusing on developing the phone’s successor Fairphone 2.

In August 2014, an unofficial build of CyanogenMod 11 (Android 4.4 “KitKat”) for the Fairphone 1 engineered by Christian Hoffmann was published at the XDA Developers Forum.

The way the USB port is soldered to the motherboard on the FP1 makes it break off easily even under light stress. Even with a new motherboard, the same problem will occur. Fairphone is not providing any replacement parts (screen, motherboard, battery) for the FP1 anymore as of July 2017.

Running a MediaTek MT6589 SoC, which is has a 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 CPU, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage, a 4.3 inch display, it set the pace for making competitive smartphones ethical and repairable, the Fairphone 1 was a nice little phone, with good features, but at a pretty hefty price in comparison with its competitors. However, it sold fairly well and it launched the company into super stardom, now being close to release their fifth iteration.

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