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Three years after the release of its last handset, Fairphone has announced the Fairphone 3, its latest attempt at a sustainable smartphone. The Fairphone 3 attempts to deliver on this promise by being easy to repair and by being constructed out of responsibly-sourced, conflict-free, and recycled materials where possible. Fairphone’s betting on a world full of long-lasting repairable phones that would significantly reduce CO2 emissions — a goal shared by iFixit and others in the right-to-repair movement.
Fairphone says that its latest handset is easy to repair thanks to being constructed out of seven modules. This is a similar approach to what the company used for its previous phone, 2016’s Fairphone 2, which earned it a 10/10…