Socially-Sustainable Smartphone

Social sustainability is often found to be abstract and intangible, ever more so in the digital age. Smartphones, which have come to epitomise the digital age, inherently lack social sustainability. Both in terms of the manufacturing of the hardware, and the operation of the software. However, recent developments has made a Socially-Sustainable Smartphone possible. The Fairphone has socially-sustainable hardware, but not software (operating system). The recently released Ubuntu Touch phone has socially-sustainable software, but not hardware. So, combining the two allows us to envisage a Socially-Sustainable Smartphone, as a demonstrator for that which is otherwise intangible. But, the question remains can one use it to make a socially-sustainable phone call?