GoodGuide.com now reviewing cell phones
GoodGuide.com reviews products (started with foods) for their health, environmental, and societal impacts so you as a consumer can make better decisions. They have recently expanded to cover cell phones. This gave me an idea.
Basically my idea is, add to the consideration the level of user's software freedom in the phone itself as well as rate the company on how it is contributing to open source upstreams, etc. Let's take the Palm Pixi Smartphone as an example,
You can break down how they do the review, by expanding Society. I would propose adding two sections:
- Free and Open Source Upstream Engagement Under Standard Company Social Performance -> Society -> Community Engagement
- User's Software Freedom Possibly Under Standard Company Social Performance -> Consumers