Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
The most modular phone right now, which you can open yourself and replace parts with just a screw driver, is the FairPhone. And even that one, you can scavenge parts from older models of the same brand, because the connectors don’t fit. There’s very little space left inside a modern phone.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
We should have the right to repair our phones. Imagine if you could never upgrade new parts into your desktop because of a corporation
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
FairPhone did dip their toes into upgradability with the FP3+ which was basically the same as the FP3 with upgraded camera modules. So people who bought the FP3 were able to buy just the new cameras instead of the whole phone. Unfortunately, the FP4 and FP5 are both again not backwards compatible. Hopefully they start focusing more of maintaining the same design for longer.