Excellent move! I think the white one gains a whole new character this way. So much more fun and life. If I had an FP2 I would want the same combination (but given my FP1 looks like surviving until the end of the smartphone age, I will probably never need one).
I think many would love to do the same with the turquoise cover whose blue buttons are quite a bad match in my eyes.
P.S.: I sense headaches for Fairphone’s shopkeepers
To be honest, I find the shipping costs for just a cover quite high. I wanted to order a new cover today but the shipping would cost 7 euros (I live in the Netherlands). Because of the size of the cover I expected it to be send by postal mail? It would easily fit through my mailbox. And I cannot imagine the cover to be very heavy? So for everyone who has received a slim cover: is it delivered as a package? Because then I would understand the costs.
The only retailer in Germany selling anything other than the phone is vireo. They have the slim covers in stock and sell them for 34,90 plus 2,90 shipping… I’d rather buy it directly at Fairphone then tbh, but I also have to say 11€ shipping for a cover which really shouldn’t need to be signed for and fits in a normal business envelope is far too much! Fairphone should really overthink their shipping policy regarding accessories. :’(
I suspect that the sole reason why Fairphone ships everything at the expensive rate is that some select parts (and the complete phone itself, of course) legally require that shipping method and for whatever reason they just apply that shipping method to each and everything, even to the most riskproof parts (shipping ten FP1 screws to Germany is 11.01 € … arrrrgh). I really don’t like the thought, but my guess for the “why” is … simplicity on the shop’s and the warehouse’s part.
Got my new case in today and I’m very happy. The phone feels better in the hand and it looks better and gives the phone a more quality look & feel; ok, that is subjective, but it works for me.
I wonder what speaks against a wider collection of colours? Is it the possibility that some colours are not very popular and then end up in a corner at the warehouse?