[Arm-netbook] The dream of Ara

[Allan Mwenda]

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. 

On January 13, 2017 11:11:39 AM GMT+03:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>---
>crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>
>
>On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:55 AM, mike.valk at gmail.com
><mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2017-01-13 4:56 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
><lkcl at lkcl.net>:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware:
>https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Wolfgang Romey
><hier at 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.
>
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