I followed through to this forum from a slashdot story about OpenMoko. I like this concept. I’d like a smartphone with a 6.5" screen with a 6:10 ratio (maybe even a bit wider), because I have some vision difficulties. I bought an Xperia Ultra, which was the largest smartphone I could find at 6 in…

Fairphone is still a very small company that produces devices in low quantities and thus have higher production costs than big players. They simply can’t afford to produce anything for fringe audiences, they’d only loose profit with such a device and also create competition for their main device.

That’s interesting… I wonder what kinds of costs are involved. I’d be curious about the kind of capital involved and skills needed to try something like this. Oh, and by competition you mean that if there was a second device, then it would split people between buying the two and drive cost up, mak…

[image] Abuzar: I wonder what kinds of costs are involved. you can read up on some previous discussion e.g. here: [image] Advocating a FP2 mini The Products Introduction Continuing : a side topic from How will you get Jolla Sailfish onto the Fairphone…

[image] Abuzar: I wonder what kinds of costs are involved. The cost breakdown of FP2 might give you some hints: [image] Cost breakdown of the Fairphone 2 - Fairphone At Fairphone, transparency is one of our core principles for creating fairer electronics. Besides digging deeper i…

Thank you for the link! It’s helpful :slight_smile: Interesting that over half the cost is manufacturing. I was expecting less, so those numbers are a surprise. Also, the tax. Didn’t know it was that high.

Manufacturing is mostly that high because it’s done in small volumes for Fairphone, for larger phone manufacturers the cost is likely lower (even though they don’t disclose it; but estimates of ~€200 for the production costs of a high-end phone are sometimes floating on the internet)

I’d like a 4" or 4,5" phone, similar to the Samsung S3 mini… So, maybe it might make sense, to develop a motherboard which can be used with different kinds of displays. A small one, with small battery, a big one with a bigger battery, and so on?

[image] Wolf.K: So, maybe it might make sense, to develop a motherboard which can be used with different kinds of displays. A small one, with small battery, a big one with a bigger battery, and so on? I think that Puzzlephone was thinking about something like this. Basically the spine would …

Would like a 6" to 7" screen, and OpenBSD and IrDA

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paulakreuzer July 29, 2017, 7:43pm 4

you can read up on some previous discussion e.g. here:

and here:

Even if the cost didn’t increase and Fairphone’s total market-share even increased a little, their profit would be less if they’d (have to) design, produce, troubleshoot, distribute, store and maintain more than one new device every few years.