quite right. The idea from Fairphone was to provide a phone that lasts 5-7 years in a era when last year’s phone was out of date.
Many years later, the iphones and S-tier Samsung are supported for 7 years because the high end phones are even more expensive and this year’s phone is just last year’s phone with a +10% cpu and +15% camera.
I think that if the idea for fairphone was released today it wouldn’t work as well cause the rythm of getting a new phone has gotten slower and slower over the years
this is why the tablet argument stings too. the argument “people change tablets every year” cannot hold scrutiny. In truth I still use a 10 yr-old tablet. It’s not the best experience but it does the job. I don’t imagine a fairphone tablet radically change the landscape
that’s not a tablet at all, it’s obviously a detachable laptop in a slab. it’s more akin to a Microsoft Surface than to an iPad mini (the iPad Pro blurs the line)
Just first impressions on the second picture: Four chairs on the table, shrill blue chair legs. I tend to think the colour is more important than the number (which might be accidental). But monday’s “4” might indeed be confirmed by the two pictures to be the days countdown – the event might be imminent (friday?!).
It’s so f*****g disappointing, that they only use closed social media channels instead of the free accessible home page for something, that might be interesting or important.
On another thought: If the announcement is indeed friday (or – less likely – even tomorrow), then I would only expect colour changes (and perhaps minor hardware modifications) on existing products (probably FP6 and Fairbuds). If Fairphone were to launch a really new product this week, I think they would have leaked something to journalists by now.
I’d say the blue color areas in the picture are some kind of “overlay” used by the camera’s monitor to provide technical information to the camera operator (areas that “peak” because they’re in focus, areas with very low light, etc.).
However, I agree with you that the photo was chosen on purpose, that the color may be indicative, and that the number may correspond to the number of days remaining until the announcement.
It does indeed look like standard “blue screen” blue (pure blue, used in TV and cinema to compose two images or video streams together based on color hue, for instance to change a background).
Now why they would want to chroma key away those chairs’ legs (and some other random surfaces) is anyone’s guess.
I wasn’t referring to chroma key, but to other types of overlays that some professional cameras and monitors have to help with framing. For example, focus peaking (although it’s usually red):
It really probably is just related to a function on the camera for some kind of setting, something like a visual aid for focus or exposure. I had something similar on an older camera, you could even pick whatever color you wanted.
Also the wall is very much green and not blue if you’re talking about the pictures
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