Getting longer software updates might become easier in the future
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https://www.stuff.tv/features/eco-boost-tech-help-save-planet (Stuff)
The Fairphone 3 is also mentioned in the November issue of Enki magazine, but I can’t find a link for that.
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The Guardian is changing their ratings for consumer electronics to mark down products that don’t meet minimum sustainability criteria.
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The article doesn’t say anything about modularity, but the Lava “myZ” is customizable on order. You can choose the RAM, flash storage, front and back cameras and color of the case.
I’m curious to see if that concept in successful.
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Cool concept.
And here’s more of the concept or rather the customisation page:
The choices are not infinite of course.
E.g. you got two choices for the rear camera:
13 + 2 MP
13 + 5 + 2 MP
With the first choice you can chose for the front camera between 8 and 16 MP; with the second choice it’s “just” the 16 MP camera.
Up to 6 GB RAM and up to 128 GB ROM.
And it comes with stock Android 10 (Go, if it’ s got just 2 GB RAM).
Dual SIM (both 4G), gorilla 3 glas and 5000 mAh battery.
The top model (13+5+2 MP rear camera, 16 MP front camera, 6 GB RAM, 128 GB ROM) is 10699 Rupies (about 120 Euro).
The cheapest one (13+2 MP rear camera, 8 MP front camera, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB ROM) is 6999 Rupies (about 80 Euro).
NO specail fair or ecological concept of course.
The CSR paper (PDF) is rather full of phrases without a real concept and nothing to be measured or binding.
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Interessante Artikel/Links zu Fairphone und fairer Elektronik
Hi,
A study about Parental control apps on Android:
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Quite a nice video from iFixit:
Your Smartphone Doesn’t Have to be Glued Shut!
Youtube: Your Smartphone Doesn’t Have to be Glued Shut! - YouTube or
Invidios: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=RCccpgposh4 if you prefer.
Mentioned/Presented phones are:
- Teracube 2e
- Purism Librem 5 and
- Fairphone 3
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I don’t agree on everything, and Samung and Apple’s situation is different than Fairphone’s, but there are some interesting thoughts in this video about phones delivered without chargers:
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Ok, I stopped after 3 min. His reasoning is stupid.
You should watch until the end, there are a few interesting things there…
Ok and what would that be?
The fact Apple removes the charger but adds a cable which is not compatible with their previous ones, for example…
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As I said, I don’t think his arguments work the same with Fairphone. He’s talking about flagships and new trends in general. Fairphone could do what they did because they used standard cables and chargers and didn’t offer fast charging in a new way. As @Antoine writes, one of the problems with Apple is when you don’t give a charger but force most people to buy one since they are not compatible with the previous phones they sold. And in this regard, the arguments about packaging and delivery are quite interesting.
Where the arguments lack some insight, in my opinion, is when he only takes packaging and shipping in consideration, and not plastic waste, as many people already have a working USB charger/cable that would be compatible with most phones.
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Wouldn’t it be the best solution for sustainability and the user to make the charger and the headphones optional? You could just tick a box, if you want them or not. Maybe make it cost 1€ each to give an incentive to not take the charger or the headphones if you don’t need them. This way the company would make it clear that they try to save resources and energy and not to make money.
In that case I would make them cost at least 30€ each, which is a fair price and would be a good incentive not to take them if not needed 
But the Lightning plug is used by Apple for their phones since more than eight years. So every Apple user has a working charger and cable already. And packing a USB-A cable into the Box would have been completely useless, as USB-C is the current standard.
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I remember I once read an English article where some guy who usually reviews smartphone for a magazine or online smartphone site was using the Fairphone 3 as his main phone for a longer period of time than he usually takes when writing a review.
One of the key sentences to me was that he found the camera to be good enough for a daily driver, even if he has to point out all the flaws/what other cameras do better when writing a review for his magazine/website.
Unfortunately I can’t find that anymore and forgot to bookmark it.
Does somebody else by chance remember that article, too, and still has the link?
They will still have to manufacture 1 charger per 1 phone to meet the potential demand, which means same carbon emissions. If people would really care about the planet there would be a law and that law would be called usb-c for the next 100 years, which as you can imagine is an impossibility as it will hamper our precious technological progress…
In any case this particular case is such a trivial matter.
Well, the key-word would be potential.
They would estimate how many users order a charger and produce the respective amount. As time goes by, they can adjust their estimate to their experience.
In the end ‘ticking a box’ is just a slightly different approach than the one practised by Fariphone.
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