Fairphone -- changing the way products are made: Bas van Abel at TEDxAmsterdam

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"If you screw up the screws with your screwdriver, you're screwed". By trying to open the Nintendo DS of his son, Bas van Abel discovered how hard it is to find out how and by who a lot of our products are made. He tells the story about how this process inspired him to embark on a journey to create the first Fair phone.
As an active member of the international maker and digital fabrication community, Bas van Abel has developed a wide variety of projects based on open design principles. As Creative Director of Waag Society's Open Design Lab, he initiated projects such as the community fabrication laboratory Fablab Amsterdam and opened his own open-source restaurant: Instructables Restaurant.

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  • @drumSick66
    @drumSick664 жыл бұрын

    I'm using this phone for 6 years already :)

  • @oliverstoiber-lipp16
    @oliverstoiber-lipp163 жыл бұрын

    "If you understand things.. you can change things". That is so true. That is the way to lead a revolution. Not just coplaining about how bad things are.. but understanding and changing them. Impressive.

  • @cornelaster3147
    @cornelaster31473 жыл бұрын

    I have had the FP3 for a year now and I freaking LOVE this phone!!!

  • @helenpalma8053
    @helenpalma80535 жыл бұрын

    I wanna buy this phone. I don't wanna buy apple any more

  • @marramgg

    @marramgg

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you get it?

  • @koolkat214
    @koolkat2147 жыл бұрын

    I wish it was available in the US so i can buy it.

  • @koolkat214

    @koolkat214

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Fairphone dope thank you!!

  • @alaskaminnie644
    @alaskaminnie6446 жыл бұрын

    PLEASE MAKE THEM AVAILABLE IN THE US

  • @GalaxyGal-
    @GalaxyGal-7 жыл бұрын

    When my 6s inevitably dies, I'm getting this.

  • @maszlagma
    @maszlagma9 жыл бұрын

    I wish I knew about this phone before I bought my smartphone a year ago... I would have bought this instead! Very good presentation!

  • @discustu9980

    @discustu9980

    8 жыл бұрын

    but it is a piece of shit tho :-)

  • @maszlagma

    @maszlagma

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Discu Stu It's probably not as up to date tech-wise than any other new phones but if it's stable and it does what they promised then that's fine for me!

  • @Lil_Bean00

    @Lil_Bean00

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Discu Stu +maszlagma It's a perfect phone, a friend of mine has it with no problems at all, It's got android and works without abnormal problems. Let's face it, the electronics market is idiotic and the products are basicly shitty (as the companies are competing with the wrong properties). All of them are full-blown capitalistic companies, this is a social entrepreneur. The parts of this phone all all replaceable (so repairing will be cheap, and no risk that you have to buy a new phone when the screen breaks). The resources are carefully selected, investments won't end up in the wrong hands (like terrorists). It also has 2 sim slots, ideal for saving unnecessary bills for international traveling. :-)

  • @nathanneve
    @nathanneve10 жыл бұрын

    Great story!

  • @mackysobrevega1780
    @mackysobrevega17805 жыл бұрын

    If they release a Fairphone 3 I'll buy one

  • @Andytheevien

    @Andytheevien

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's on pre-order right now. Checking if I can buy it as I live in Australia.

  • @AYouTubeCommentator

    @AYouTubeCommentator

    3 жыл бұрын

    They now have a Fairphone *3+.*

  • @ms-9

    @ms-9

    2 жыл бұрын

    and now a 4

  • @mackysobrevega1780

    @mackysobrevega1780

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ms-9 hahaha might do

  • @GonzaloAlcaraz
    @GonzaloAlcaraz10 жыл бұрын

    I bought it!!

  • @VickyYeh0413
    @VickyYeh04135 жыл бұрын

    Wow bravo this is mind blowing

  • @mark6491
    @mark64912 жыл бұрын

    nice fairphone 4 thanks !!!

  • @alemaldonado98
    @alemaldonado984 жыл бұрын

    Make this available in Mexico pls

  • @Praecantetia
    @Praecantetia6 жыл бұрын

    Aah! That's a strangely shaped capacitor, but damn I had a feeling it must've been one because resistors look different

  • @RexOrwell
    @RexOrwell10 жыл бұрын

    The logo though.

  • @vishwakumar2864
    @vishwakumar28643 жыл бұрын

    So how many of you noticed that the audience bit was replayed at the end. 2:52 and 11:45 ? Why should they do such blunder ?

  • @UtraVioletDreams

    @UtraVioletDreams

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it's because of the pretty lady. Edit: Silly, right!

  • @bayarmanlaiburiad6651
    @bayarmanlaiburiad665110 жыл бұрын

    Dears, Good luck, i will get one! from Mongolia.

  • @clarahan77
    @clarahan772 жыл бұрын

    This is my speech title tmw:D

  • @w.grn04
    @w.grn043 жыл бұрын

    Erstmal Hallo an meine Lehrerin🤝🏽

  • @yilo3595

    @yilo3595

    3 жыл бұрын

    Digga hallo an wesley echt interessant das video ne

  • @elucidator8742

    @elucidator8742

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yilo3595 Das Video war eigentlich voll nice

  • @Arkatr4
    @Arkatr45 жыл бұрын

    please start to sell this phone in Israel too

  • @andrewgray2787
    @andrewgray27874 жыл бұрын

    Before buying, read the Fairphone Community Forum for all the posts from disappointed owners struggling with a defective product.

  • @bridge-it7195

    @bridge-it7195

    3 жыл бұрын

    People who are satisfied report this much less often than unsatisfied ones - I had no problems, neither with FP1, nor with FP2 - all very good, bought a new battery after 3 years, phone does everything I need. Thanks a million, FP!!

  • @andrewgray2787

    @andrewgray2787

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bridge-it7195 My FP2 was defective from day 1, and the list of defects grew until I finally gave up on it. Judging by the FP customer forum, my experience of buying an FP for altruistic reasons, really trying hard to like it and forgive/put up with its faults, but ending up dissatisfied appears to be common one. I missed important work calls when the speaker didn't work. I missed special photographs of my children when the camera didn't work. When I went out, I was always worried about if/when the short lasting and erratic battery would die that day.

  • @bridge-it7195

    @bridge-it7195

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewgray2787 sorry to hear from your experiences, but if my phone is broken from day one - that happened twice with an ACER Computer in my case - I would return it until I have a working device.

  • @ochiorbus
    @ochiorbus3 жыл бұрын

    SO many bots commenting here...

  • @tibornekardos3019
    @tibornekardos30196 жыл бұрын

    Looks great, but too expensive for most people.

  • @kostaspapapanais9590
    @kostaspapapanais9590 Жыл бұрын

    Greek subs;

  • @Jazz0Vs0Metal
    @Jazz0Vs0Metal10 жыл бұрын

    Lol Nintendo lets you open up their devices, just use the right screwdriver. I disassembled my Wii. Lol you can open more Smartphones than you think (easier than you think). Lumia 800, 4 minutes and it's almost completely disassembled. There are many disassembly tutorials for almost any phone on youtube, but didn't see any video of the fairphone. Worst TED talk I've ever seen

  • @Jazz0Vs0Metal

    @Jazz0Vs0Metal

    10 жыл бұрын

    Doesn't matter who does it as long as someone does it. Still doesn't change The fact that there is no fairphone disassembly Video. Wouldn't buy a Smartphone from someone who can't even open a Nintendo lol

  • @maclunar

    @maclunar

    9 жыл бұрын

    Lol I don't think you watched the entire video lol And you definitely didn't understand that it's about much more than just being able to open your device lol

  • @Jazz0Vs0Metal

    @Jazz0Vs0Metal

    9 жыл бұрын

    Much more? Oh about how they still produce their phone in china with not much better wages. And of course, they found a conflict-free area for Cotlan. But it's still the same country... So yeah all they are doing is being a little more transparent than other manufacturers. In fact the processor they use is produced from a company that has one of the worst conditions for workers in china... I am saying it again. Motorla tried to produce their Moto X in the USA, but failed because it was too expensive. At least they tried. Fairphone doesn't even bother. While that guy is talking and brainwashing you many chinese workers produce his fairphone at still not that much better circumstances than any other company. Why don't they just build the phones themselves instead of sitting on their fat asses? THAT would be a Fairphone

  • @ElGamerStudios

    @ElGamerStudios

    8 жыл бұрын

    +iLo_ iLo If they don't support the free-conflict mines, they would probably be bought by other companies who don't care about the conditions of the workers. Fairphone cares about the conglians and chinese by giving them some work to do and have a little more decent live.

  • @anjayl

    @anjayl

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Alessio Eberl | Whao... amazing someone miss a point that much... if we still had natural predators, you'd be long gone.

  • @gluttonousgluten8024
    @gluttonousgluten80245 жыл бұрын

    Using tedx as marketing, yuck, i can read that in his crummy neurolinguistic programming. I support the cause of fairphone but theyre kinda bad, bad phone but they still thrive off poor people, but not as problematic as the major phone brands.