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On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:35 AM, mike.v...@gmail.com <mike.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-01-13 9:11 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net>: >> >> --- >> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:55 AM, mike.v...@gmail.com >> <mike.v...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 2017-01-13 4:56 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net>: >> >> >> >> --- >> >> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Wolfgang Romey <h...@wolfgangromey.de> >> >> wrote: >> >> > I think my FairPhone 2, which I own for a month, is some kind of a >> >> > modular >> >> > smartphone. >> >> >> >> it's not: they lied. >> > >> > >> > If they're intentions were honest it's not a lie. It's just being naive. >> >> no, it's called lying. or, at best, deceptive marketing. >> >> > But all most parts are, user, replaceable. Which indeed does not make it >> > modular, but serviceable. >> >> correct. >> >> if it was a truly modular design, the parts would snap or slide-lock >> apart in some fashion, there would be a hardware and software standard >> published, and the parts would be re-useble in future designs and they >> would have PUBLISHED SOME INDICATION OF THEIR EXISTENCE already. >> >> so it's total horseshit and they know it. they're not stupid: they >> had enough people on their forums talk about dave hakkan's phonebloks >> concept for them to have heard the word "modular" enough times. >> >> >> > The biggest issue is that they've tied the modem and SIM directly to the >> > rest of the system. It's a cheap decision. Which most manufactures have >> > done >> > unfortunately. [1] >> >> i told them that it's easy to get hold of a cheap 3G modem containing >> a qualcomm MSM chipset. they ceased communication shortly afterwards. > > > You're being to brief here. i remember the part number: SEW291. uses a MSM6290 or something. using that it is entirely isolated via a USB bus, audio is isolated behind a PWM interface, power may be provided (and CUT with a hard physical kill switch) so that the 3G modem may be enabled for example only for a few minutes when you are in a crowded area, exchange messages (send and receive), hard-cut the 3G modem again and disappear into the crowd. if someone *really* wants to upload OTA firmware and arbitrary executables during that time, they're more than welcome to try - but it will do absolutely no good if the 3G modem module is POWERED DOWN. this is the design that i intend to make with the hybridphone. http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/hybrid_phone/ l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
