Fairphone
Fairphone builds modular phones you can repair with a screwdriver, and publishes where the materials came from. It exists to make an argument about how the rest of the industry works.
About Fairphone
Fairphone makes phones that come apart. A screen, a battery, a camera module or a charging port can be replaced by the owner with an ordinary screwdriver and a part ordered from the company, at a point when most manufacturers had glued their devices shut and routed every repair through a service centre. The repairability is only half of it. The company publishes detail on where the materials in its phones come from, and works on fairer mining for tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold, on factory conditions, and on recycled and fair-trade inputs. It also runs the obvious corollary: long software support, so a phone that can be repaired is also worth repairing. It is small - by a very wide margin the smallest manufacturer in this directory - and that is close to the point. Fairphone was founded in January 2013 in Amsterdam by Bas van Abel and Tessa Wernink, out of a campaign about conflict minerals in electronics rather than out of a hardware business, and its purpose is to demonstrate that phones can be built differently. It also sells headphones and earbuds on the same terms.