developed a smartphone that is longer lasting and more easily repaired than most on the market mikhail bannister's one of the company's founders he richly studied industrial design. designers were in no way part of the problem of. very light very fast cycles so i started studying the strategy behind the production of. products in general and for fun was a great place to develop my yes for. this is what the company's modular smartphone looks like it's easy to disassemble and repair and new parts such as improved cameras can be installed. the founders main idea was to produce the phones fairly means with fair wages and safety standards for the workers and without materials from conflict regions. they had to search widely to fulfill that requirement in northern rwanda they discovered the new book around a mining company which operates a tungsten mine this role for the sea here in measure funds. and that's made of thompson from here. the mine is close to the border with the democratic republic of congo. since conflicts in the neighboring country flared up again cells of tungsten from these mines plumm