Some news on Fairphone 3:
āā¦ a listing for the Fairphone 3 has popped up on the Bluetooth SIG website. Aside from confirming the name [of the phone] and Bluetooth 5 capabilities, the listing doesnāt tell us anything else though.ā
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And there is a kind of follow up to the announcements on those website:
https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000106949490/fairphone-3-koennte-bald-vorgestellt-werden
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If they are really aiming to present āa new phoneā at the upcoming IFA this will surely cause quite some attention and probably a good sales/order boost.
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If you sign up for the Fairphone newsletter you get a coupon with 10 EUR off next order over 100 EUR. This coupon is valid till 31 Dec 2019, so I suppose you could use it to buy the Fairphone 3.
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Circular Economy: Thomas Rau at TEDxZwolle (2013)
You have at least convinced me to sign out of my Google Account when Iām not using it. My favorite browser is Vivaldi, which of course is based on Google Chrome (Iām not on a smartphone). I would use Firefox if the text in the address bar was highlighted when I click on it. Itās a rather minor issue, but itās never been fixed.
Wrong - based on Chromium
Wrong again - not a bug, just an option. I got help from community members:
- Type
about:configin the address bar and hit return. - Search for
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll - Doubleclick that entry to set it to true.
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A what? Iām confused.
āBatteryā is literally āaccumulatorā in Germanic languages.
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Only a ārechargeable batteryā, to be more precise 
(But accumulator is a correct british term as well; Germans spell it with ākkā instead of āccā.)
And ānon-fixed installedā would mean āremovableā, if I get it right.
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I learn something new every day.
(AFAIK only applies to USA.)
Could be a win for less e-waste?
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Saw this in an iFixit article: https://myteracube.com/
Introducing Teracube ā Worldās first and only cutting edge smartphone with a 4 year warranty. Better for your pocket, better for the planet.
- 4 Year Warranty
- Android 9 (latest)
- All Day Battery
- Environment Friendly
No real info yet. They are in a pre-crowdfunding phase. And probably something for all the people asking if FP will ever expand beyond Europe.
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I find it funny that āall day batteryā is a feature nowadays (see FP3). It should be a given IMHO.
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I would like to agree.
But whenever I am out in the open, there are lots of people streaming videos with their smartphones all the time on the train, walking, shopping ā¦
Add to that permanent WiFi on, Bluetooth headphones, and e-mail, whatsapp, telegram and you name it more running constantly in the backgroud, ever larger displays and flatter phones.
In the end you end up being challenged to make a battery last a whole day.
My FP2 makes up to 3 days on itās first battery, if I just use it for calling and the random five minutes of sudoko. WiFi off, of course. But having the display turned on for a few hours really sucks the battery dry in a day.
Not only that, what is all day? 24 hours? Day without sleep cycle (typically 24 - 8 = 16 hours)? Or work day (typically ~8 hours plus commute)? During what type of usage?
It could be a reference to FP2 where people had issues to get through the day.
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100% of āMade by Google productsā (including Pixel phones) will include recycled materials by 2022. It includes 100% of all Google shipments going to and from customers being carbon neutral by 2020:
Not so clear how much of those recycled materials theyāll have, but all this sounds kind of related with the Fairphone mission, isnāt it ?
EDIT: thanks to JeroenH to move this to the right place
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Apple will offer more repair opportunities to customers by supporting independent repair shops as well (supplying them with spare parts and training their technicians. Itās starting in the US only for now. It is at least fairer to customers, though itās obviously no step towards easy repairability.
Maybe in the end they sell their phones with a coupon for a special Apple-training how to change the battery. Up to now having the battery changed by an independent repair shop results in the phone working, but showing an error-message; that shall disappear now for certified independent shops:
I read about it in a German newspaper:
The German article states, that Apple collects parts that have been replaced by original parts for reuse or recycling. Just makes me wonder, why not take back at least original parts, even if they are replaced with third-party stuff? Ok, they sure want to incentivise using original parts, thereby turning the reuse/recycle approach a bit into a marketing tool.
I know, no surprise, itās Apple (or rather not Fairphone).
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I was about to post that one, thanks @BertG
Apple will provide more independent repair businesses ā large or small ā with the same genuine parts, tools, training, repair manuals and diagnostics as its Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs)
Right now these repair manuals get āpiratedā.
Here is the HN thread
The top post saying:
We run 7 independent repair shops, so on its face this is great news for us. I did sign us up for this program, and we are beginning the process today of getting at least 1-2 people at all of our locations to be certified.
There is lots of good news here for us; the biggest being that we can get official partsā¦finally! Although aftermarket parts have come a long way. We now stock iPhone batteries that have larger capacity than the original. (Yes, truly a larger capacity. We do 30,000+ repairs a yearā¦we are not messing around with batteries that just say they have a larger capacity.)
The biggest problem I potentially see is profit margins. AASPās have long struggled because Apple wants to squeeze all of the profit out of their business. If you pay $149 to get your iPhone 8 screen replaced, but Apple charges us $135 for the screen, we canāt realistically make any money off of that.
We charge $69 to replace an iPhone 8 screen currently, so thereās also a potential negative on the consumer side of having to pay more to get screens replaced. It does, however, appear that Apple will let providers in this program also offer third-party screens, which is a big change from the current AASP program.
All in all, as someone whose business is directly affected by this, Iām mildly optimistic. As long as Apple understands that repair shops need to be profitable too, this can be a really good thing for both sides.
EDIT: I found Louis Rossmannās response here:
(Havenāt had time to watch it yet!!)
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