Shift GmbH

At its core, SHIFT has a simple mission: to do as much good as we can while doing as little damage as possible. Since 2014, brothers Carsten and Samuel Waldeck have been producing smartphones manufactured under fair conditions at SHIFT's in-house manufacturing facility. The makers of the first smartphones designed and built in Germany have staked their company's future on their ‘modular’ (i.e. ‘repairable’) design. This design stems in part from the firm's desire to enrich the technology sector by coming up with the most sustainable techniques and concepts for preventing electrical and other waste. But that doesn't mean SHIFT is compromising on design and quality. After all, as far as SHIFT's founders are concerned, there is no point in producing a phone under fair conditions unless it works properly and looks great too. That's why so much love and attention goes into every single SHIFTPHONE. The SHIFTPHONE is currently the most modular and sustainable smartphone in the world. In recognition of this status, both the company and its products have been honoured with variety of awards, including the ‘Hessischer Gründerpreis’ (awarded to entrepreneurs in the German Federal State of Hesse) and the German Federal Ecodesign Award.