A phone that's not satisfied just with being smart

Nassos Katsamanis, 34, is one of the 21 people to have ordered the Fairphone in Greece. 'I like the philosophy behind it. It’s like the old desktop computers which you could open up to switch the motherboard or add some extra memory,' he says.

By Harry van Versendaal

"Every so often you come across some article on Africa's ‘blood minerals' or the suicides at Foxconn," says Nassos Katsamanis in reference to the Taiwanese contract manufacturer whose 1.2 million employees in China assemble consumer products for electronics giants such as Apple, Sony and Nokia.

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