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Fairphone
15 April 2026
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Celebrating seven years of the Fairphone 3
It’s a bittersweet moment at Fairphone.<br>On one hand, we’re officially retiring the Fairphone 3 and 3+. And while we would love to be able to keep supporting our devices indefinitely (that is the dream!), the sad reality is that we aren’t there… yet.<br>Having said that, we still have reason to celebrate. At the time of the Fairphone 3’s launch in 2019, our goal was to support the phone for five years. With the last software update rolling out in June and support officially concluding in August 2026, the Fairphone 3 will have received seven years of support. That’s two more years than we originally planned!
“Our goal is to challenge the entire industry to build products that last, and Fairphone 3 is a living proof of how well we did.”
Chandler Hatton, Fairphone CTO
For us at Fairphone, the device was one of many firsts. Keep scrolling to learn more.
The Fairphone 3 was the first Fairphone to be ranged by mobile network operators<br>Carriers to offer the Fairphone 3 to their customers across Europe included Orange, KPN, Deutsche Telekom, and Vodafone, among others. The reason, to quote our co-founder Miquel Ballester, was the Fairphone 3’s more mature, modular design language compared to the Fairphone 2’s more experimental and quirky aesthetic. “We wanted to reach a much wider audience with the Fairphone 3, and so we moved towards a more industry-conforming exterior look while expanding on our well-known modularity.” Modularity also went up. With the Fairphone 2, the bottom unit within the device was still one unit. With the Fairphone 3, the speaker within the bottom unit was made a separate spare part. Then of course, there was the Fairphone 3+ that rolled out a year later that offered backward-compatible cameras as well as better audio performance. It was also made fairer, with an increase in use of post-consumer recycled plastics from 9% to 40%!
The Fairphone 3 was the first Fairphone device linked to Fairphone’s living wage bonus program<br>Fairphone’s living wage bonus program is one of the initiatives we are the most proud of, as it actively helps the people who make our phones earn a decent standard of living. The program is designed to bridge the gap between minimum wage and an actual livable salary, with Fairphone paying the difference. Since 2019, we have paid out over $1.25M USD to supply chain workers. The Fairphone 3? That was the phone that kickstarted it all. According to Fairphone’s Fair Factories Lead, Remco Kouwenhoven, “Fairphone 3 did what the electronics industry long said was "impossible": it supported living wages for supply chain workers, helping to lift these people out of poverty. It was a landmark move, pushing the industry to reconsider sustaining poverty systems or to use their business power to eradicate...