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Fairphone is a Dutch electronics manufacturer that designs and produces smartphones. It aims to lower environmental footprint through minimizing the use of conflict minerals in its devices, maintaining fair labor conditions for its workforce and suppliers, and allowing users to maintain their own devices.

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Fairphone 6 downgraded to USB-C 2.0 (forum.fairphone.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/fairphone@hardware.watch

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

tinfoil hat on

They did it to be able to sell a cheap USB 3 module later down the line to demonstrate how awesome the modular approach is.

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

I read on the forum that they said it's unlikely a module upgrade would be possible, unfortunately