Fairphone will sell smartphones outside Europe for the first time – IT Pro – News

The Dutch smartphone maker Fairphone will promote units exterior Europe, particularly in Taiwan. It says it’s the first time that Fairphone sells units exterior Europe, though the corporate wouldn’t have any plans to increase additional.

Fairphone has been working with groups in Taiwan for a number of years; the corporate’s smartphones are developed there and it has an workplace. That’s the reason CEO Eva Gouwens states: “After a number of years of creating units in Taiwan, Fairphone is making its newest system obtainable to Taiwanese shoppers.” She continues: “As a primary step right into a market exterior of Europe, it is a good place to start out within the nation the place our telephones are developed and the place we now have an workplace.”

The Dutch firm Fairphone was based in 2013 and strives to provide smartphones as sustainably as potential. The corporate focuses on sustainability, amongst different issues smartphones modular and subsequently extra repairable and use recycled supplies obtained in a ‘fairer’ means. The newest Fairphone 4 is, in its personal phrases, a ‘waste-neutral’ smartphone as a result of an outdated smartphone is recycled for each copy offered.