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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)

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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We need a phone equivalent of the 80's BIOS wars.

But it's not in anyone's best interest to spend the resources to develop a standardized hardware interface. Though at this point you'd think it would be straightforward to use UEFI.

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