<html><head></head><body>The fairphone is repairable not modular. Sneaky marketing on their part. They don't really seem interested in providing much more than that if you ask me. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 13, 2017 11:11:39 AM GMT+03:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">---<br />crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68">https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68</a><br /><br /><br />On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:55 AM, mike.valk@gmail.com<br /><mike.valk@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2017-01-13 4:56 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> ---<br /> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68">https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68</a><br /><br /><br /> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Wolfgang Romey <hier@wolfgangromey.de><br /> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> I think my FairPhone 2, which I own for a month, is some kind of a<br /> modular<br /> smartphone.<br /></blockquote><br /> it's not: they lied.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /> If they're intentions were honest it's not a lie. It's just being naive.<br /></blockquote><br /> no, it's called lying. or, at best, deceptive marketing.<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> But all most parts are, user, replaceable. Which indeed does not make it<br /> modular, but serviceable.<br /></blockquote><br /> correct.<br /><br /> if it was a truly modular design, the parts would snap or slide-lock<br />apart in some fashion, there would be a hardware and software standard<br />published, and the parts would be re-useble in future designs and they<br />would have PUBLISHED SOME INDICATION OF THEIR EXISTENCE already.<br /><br /> so it's total horseshit and they know it. they're not stupid: they<br />had enough people on their forums talk about dave hakkan's phonebloks<br />concept for them to have heard the word "modular" enough times.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> The biggest issue is that they've tied the modem and SIM directly to the<br /> rest of the system. It's a cheap decision. Which most manufactures have done<br /> unfortunately. [1]<br /></blockquote><br /> i told them that it's easy to get hold of a cheap 3G modem containing<br />a qualcomm MSM chipset. they ceased communication shortly afterwards.<br /><br />l.<br /><br /><hr /><br />arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk<br /><a href="http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook">http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook</a><br />Send large attachments to arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk</pre></blockquote></div><br>
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