<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-13 9:11 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net" target="_blank">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">---<br>
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</span><span class="gmail-">On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:55 AM, <a href="mailto:mike.valk@gmail.com">mike.valk@gmail.com</a><br>
<<a href="mailto:mike.valk@gmail.com">mike.valk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 2017-01-13 4:56 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>>:<br>
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>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.crowdsupply.com/<wbr>eoma68</a><br>
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>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Wolfgang Romey <<a href="mailto:hier@wolfgangromey.de">hier@wolfgangromey.de</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > I think my FairPhone 2, which I own for a month, is some kind of a<br>
>> > modular<br>
>> > smartphone.<br>
>><br>
>> it's not: they lied.<br>
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> If they're intentions were honest it's not a lie. It's just being naive.<br>
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</span> no, it's called lying. or, at best, deceptive marketing.<br>
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> But all most parts are, user, replaceable. Which indeed does not make it<br>
> modular, but serviceable.<br>
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</span> correct.<br>
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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>
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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>
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> 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>
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</span> 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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're being to brief here. I don't understand.</div><div><br></div><div>They are using a Qualcomm MSM (<span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);white-space:nowrap">Snapdragon 801</span>) chip for their "Fairphone 2". </div><div><br></div><div>Which in my opnion is both good and bad.</div><div>Good: </div><div>- Open source kernels without NDA</div><div>- Opensource display drivers: Freedreno </div><div>Bad:</div><div>- Modem and SIM are remote programmable and have direct, unswitched, uncontrolled access to power and RAM. So very bad for your privacy.</div><div>- Little effort in up-streaming their modifications to the Linux Kernel</div><div>- No free unbricking software.</div><div><br></div><div>How bad for your privacy? One rogue cell transceiver (ca. 800$) and complete control over your phone forever. </div><div><br></div><div>But that is true for almost all phones.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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