First time poster but I’d just like to say how excited I am for the Fairphone 2!
I might be jumping the gun a bit, but I was wondering what the maximum memory size of the Fairphone 2 MicroSD might be? I know that the original Fairphone had a maximum of 64GB. I just want to get everything sorted before it comes (so excited!).
Does anyone also have any recommendations for a microUSB type B charger? I’m stuck on an awful iPhone at the moment so I need to get one before the phone comes so I can charge it.
The spec list says FP2 supports “SDHC, SDXC, UHS”. Wikipedia says SDHC is up to 32 GB and SDXC up to 2TB. However I don’t know whether that also means that FP2 necessarily supports these sizes.
SDHC and SDXC are basically the same thing from a hardware perspective, the difference comes in with the out-of-the-box filesystem, which on the SDXC chips is exFAT.
The FP2 should be fine with any microsd capacity, and if it says SDXC then that means they paid the royalties to Microsoft for the exFAT licence, so it should be all fine.
Does anyone also have any recommendations for a microUSB type B charger?
Any should be good. Fairphone offers some in their shop
Be careful, I have two charger. An old one from Samsung (works fine) and a new one from an electronic market which needs fine tuning of the cable angle and some light weight on the cable to connect to the phone. My car charger works also fine, thus, I blame the charger to be the prblem, not the phone.
My advice: check the carger before buying. Finding your phone as empty as you left it in the evening is quite annoyed in the morning.
Regarding chargers: Does anybody have experiences with car-chargers to plug into the 12V car outlet? Is there a risk in the car outlet delivering too much current or something? Do I need to look on the specs of the charger or how does that work? (Looking for one suitable for FP2)
I did the same. It gets reformatted (sort of, because it goes very fast) to FAT32. The good thing is that exFAT is poorly supported under linux, it took several days to copy 180GB of music files. And I don’t need the support for files >3GB.