Units shipped 60,000 | Form factor slate | |
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Compatible networks GSM 850 900 1800 1900WCDMA 900 2100 First released December 2013; 3 years ago (2013-12) |
The Fairphone 1 is a touchscreen-based, slate-sized smartphone designed and manufactured by Fairphone. It was released running Android 4.2.2, with the Fairphone OS skin. It was the first phone from the social enterprise Fairphone, announce on 14 May 2013 and shipped beginning in December 2013.
Contents
2013: first production batch
2014: second production batch
Alternative OSes
In November 2013, one of the developers of Replicant wrote a blog post in which they said that Replicant could work on the Fairphone and the bootloaders (that are not part of the operating system) may even be free software. The Fairphone team seemed "definitely interested" in helping get Replicant running on the device.
In August 2014, an unofficial build of CyanogenMod 11 (Android 4.4 KitKat) for the Fairphone 1 engineered by Christian Hoffmann was published at the XDA Developers Forum. [1]
OS Updates
in December 2014, Fairphone admitted that it had failed to convince chipset vendor MediaTek to open up the source code for first-generation Fairphones. In September 2015, Fairphone released an update indicating that they had indeed gained access to MediaTek's source code.
An update to Kitkat (Android 4.4) is announced for 2016.