CTO of Purism Nicole Faerber spoke at CCC Camp last month about her company’s effort to make a truly Open Source phone.

The smartphone is the computing device for the next century. There’s nowhere you can go on Earth where someone doesn’t have a smartphone. As with any popular technology, there are positive and negative consequences: landfills will be lithium mines in the future, and phones are constantly listening in on conversations you’re having right now. What if we could design a phone that’s good for you and the environment?

Enter the Fairphone

Fairphone released their latest piece of hardware this week, a phone that respects your freedom and the freedom of others.

Unlike nearly every other phone on the planet, the Fairphone 3 is as sustainably sourced, at least as much as it can be. The gold in the phone is Fairtrade certified and comes from conflict-free sources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

But a phone that respects freedom also means you can repair it. Here’s where the Fairphone really shines. In an iFixit teardown, the Fairphone 2 scored an incredible 10/10 repairability score. This is a phone designed to be taken apart. The components are modular, similar to the now-cancelled Google’s Project Ara.