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On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:55 AM, mike.valk@gmail.com mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
2017-01-13 4:56 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Wolfgang Romey hier@wolfgangromey.de wrote:
I think my FairPhone 2, which I own for a month, is some kind of a modular smartphone.
it's not: they lied.
If they're intentions were honest it's not a lie. It's just being naive.
no, it's called lying. or, at best, deceptive marketing.
But all most parts are, user, replaceable. Which indeed does not make it modular, but serviceable.
correct.
if it was a truly modular design, the parts would snap or slide-lock apart in some fashion, there would be a hardware and software standard published, and the parts would be re-useble in future designs and they would have PUBLISHED SOME INDICATION OF THEIR EXISTENCE already.
so it's total horseshit and they know it. they're not stupid: they had enough people on their forums talk about dave hakkan's phonebloks concept for them to have heard the word "modular" enough times.
The biggest issue is that they've tied the modem and SIM directly to the rest of the system. It's a cheap decision. Which most manufactures have done unfortunately. [1]
i told them that it's easy to get hold of a cheap 3G modem containing a qualcomm MSM chipset. they ceased communication shortly afterwards.
l.