Am 26.10.2012 22:08, schrieb Radek Polak: > On Friday, October 26, 2012 09:00:52 PM Onen wrote: >> a though crossed my mind. Would that make sense, to create the inner >> part of the phone, but compatible with an existing case. For example, >> let's say you make a phone compatible with case and screen of an iphone >> 1, or 2, or any other phone which had great success. This could provide >> a lot of spare parts for little cost. >> >> Does that make any sense? > > If you can buy the case as separate part for reasonable price then it could. > But i dont think iPhone case can be bought separately. And you have to take > into account how fast are all these devices obsolete.
Another problem with "commercial" cases are its displays and the display connectors/protocol particularly. As there is no documentation available for e.g. iphone displays we would have to reverse engineer them. > Btw i have talked with guy who designed aluminium CNC made case for > Freerunner/GTA04. His main problem (and i hit the problem too with wooden > case) is that the PCB shape and buttons on it are quite complicated. If it > was > flat rectangle it would be much easier. Also some parts need quite high > precision - like the earpiece or gsm antenna - i am still surprised that it > still works in my printed case... The 3D printing technology works barely. Some parts had to be modified to be printable. In my latest version of the printed case I modified the Earpiece "connector" to fit the original Phillips earpiece, this works pretty good now. Cheers, Lukas
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