The Fairphone 1 is a

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-based,

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-sized

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designed and manufactured by

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. It was released running Android 4.2.2 "Jelly Bean", with the ''Fairphone OS'' skin. It was the first phone from the

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Fairphone, announced on 14 May 2013 and shipped beginning in December 2013.

Production batches

First batch

*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.

Second batch

* 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

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Software updates

In December 2014, Fairphone admitted that it had failed to convince chipset vendor

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to open up the source code for first-generation Fairphones. In September 2015, Fairphone released an update indicating that they had indeed gained access to MediaTek's source code. An update to Android 4.4 “KitKat” was announced for 2016 but was delayed because of major issues. In July 2017, Fairphone announced in an e-mail to their buyers that they were sorry not to be able to pursue the release of Android 4.4 “KitKat” for the Fairphone 1.

Alternative software

In November 2013, one of the developers of

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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. In August 2014, an unofficial build of

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11 ( Android 4.4 “KitKat”) for the Fairphone 1 engineered by Christian Hoffmann was published at the

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Forum.

Issues

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.

References

External links

* {{Portal bar, Companies, Telecommunication, Netherlands, Society Fair trade brands Android (operating system) devices Smartphones Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery Mobile phones introduced in 2013