With the introduction of eSims and iSims, maybe these will be worsened or alleviated. However, One issue I see as a drawback is that manufacturers will drop SD Card compatibility as well with this adaptation, just , justith the transformation of wireless headphones.
-deviating from this, relating to headphone jacks. What if we got a standardized optical port? It would provide super low latency audio, although with specific configurations, slight bends in the cable cause disruption. I’m aware dense wavelength division multiplexing prevents this to an extent. It would be cool to see a company adopt this format for audio processing at a consumer-level cost.
A Framework Phone with the ease of repairability/endomodular parts like Fairphones and Shiftphones but actually upgradable and customizable internal parts and attachments would be really nice! +
Component manufacturers like LG and Samsung already offers standardized, off-the-shelf camera modules and displays so it would be awesome to be able to pick n’ choose which components in a “Framework Phone 1” to upgrade to what’s offered in a hypothetical “Framework Phone 2” – say only swapping one of multiple cameras, a more energy-dense battery, and upgrading to a microLED display instead of the chassis, main motherboard, and I/O module(s) as well.
Between Moto Mods and Google’s Project Ara the idea of magnetically attaching and connecting outer attachments (or “exomodules”) on the back or even the sides of the device would be insanely cool too.
Seems like Google lent Phandroid the Project Ara prototype in 2017 for a hands-on feature.
Then Completing the Circuit somehow acquired it in 2020 and completed a long-term review on it to the best of his abilities:
The most amazing potential would be if Framework were to collaborate with Fairphone and Shiftphone to make and ensure cross-brand support for certain hardware and software (say cameras, batteries, and validated Linux distros & Android flavors) to be easily interchangeable and interoperable between phone models of all three brands.
Hi,
I need a new phone and I just found the shiftphone 8.1 wich is in preorder and matching pretty much everything I want.
I tried the fairphone 5 but I honestly found it overpriced and it’s way to big with a case.
I was debating between the samsung xcover, hmd skyline and cmf phone 1 and that’s when I found shiftphones.
They actively support other ROM
Very easily reaparable
Hardware is very good compared to other ‘repairable’ phones.
The only downside is pretty much everything is in German and there is not as much reviews as other phones.
I will come back when I have the phone in may/june to tell if it’s any good !
If anyone is interested they have a forum and here is their shop (Everything seems in German in the shop, I had to use chromium translation feature!).
Anyway since I seem to recall framework confirmed they will not work on a phone this seem the best alternative.
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