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Most of us have the exasperation of feeling helpless when our smartphone breaks. Phone manufacturers to go to extraordinary lengths to consumers from opening the back of their phones to DIY repairs. Help is at hand. Fairphone is a new company has a self-repairable mobile phone. The founder is Bas van Abel, a Dutch design engineer who out to make "the world's first ethical smartphone". He his company in 2013 with four basic principles. First, he to use raw materials from non-conflict mining areas. He also wanted to a product that was recyclable, durable and repairable. The new Fairphone these aims.

The Fairphone website outlines the philosophy that the company. It says its mission is to "a massive industry to take responsibility for its impact on the world, by a viable market for ethical electronics". It the fact that many workers who technology are working in unacceptable conditions. It also out the, "staggering amount of waste the electronics industry generates". Finally, it says: "Communication technology on track to for 14 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions by 2040." The Fairphone with a screwdriver and is easily repairable. The plastic is 40-per-cent recycled, and the minerals are ethically sourced.