Gadgetory

hey guys Boston this is the fairphone - and it is a fully modular smartphone what's different about this is unlike something like the essential or the moto Z which is more about adding things to your phone to get more functionality with the fairphone say something like the screen breaks or the camera is outdated the idea is that you can literally just pop the screen out and put into an end without having to throw away your phone open this guy up and we see the fairphone itself which actually looks really cool so idea here is that you should be able to very very easily swap parts out so now let me take out the battery but there are actually a couple of tabs on the bottom so if we flip these back in theory or she's done this before but we can just pop the screen right off seriously I just unbox the phone and took the screen out in like eight seconds with the screen gone we can get access to several other modules so up top here we have the headphone jack as well as the front-facing camera we have the main camera module here we also have the speaker as well as the microUSB cable on the back so it's cool about the fairphone is that there are seven different modules that you can buy and so say something breaks or you just want to upgrade it you can pretty much buy all of them on the fair film site this would be the first time that I've completely taken a phone apart before if you can finish the emboss so with just a couple screws we have the camera out of the phone so what they're doing here is actually have these little pins that are on the actual camera itself I assume that these are the same pins that go on all of the other different modules to connect things so that I believe is the fairphone fully broken down so this is what I believe they call the core module so inside here is where you have stuff like the CPU the radios all that kind of stuff but when you look at it like this it's a cool package once everything is put back together you'll find acknowledges the support dual SIM cards but also a microSD up to 64 gigabytes so the thing with the fairphone is it's not a flagship it's reasonably decent respect but don't expect too much the real novelty here is the fact that you can really just take the whole thing tear it apart put it back together and you have a working smartphone we are up and running so the first thing they jumped ask me about the fully assembled fair phone is that it's a a bit chunky this is definitely not the most slender phone in the world but of course most smartphones are nowhere near this easy to get into so you do have some trade-off inside this is rocking specs straight out of 2014 so it's rocking a quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor with 2 gigabytes of RAM as well as 32 gigabytes of storage this isn't that bad when you take a look at the benchmarks it's definitely well behind a more modern flagship keep in mind though that the Snapdragon 801 was super high-end in 2014 yes that might not mean a whole lot three years later but this is still going to perform just as well if not better than a lot of budget phones today to be fair the screen is pretty decent so what is a 5-inch panel with a 1920 by 1080 resolution it definitely won't shame any current flagship but considering that most of the specs of this phone from 2014 it's actually kind of similar to the HTC One m8 in that regard good but definitely a couple years behind the time it also has a 2000 420 milliamp hour battery that's fairly small for a smart phone these days now I get it the fear phone is definitely not meant to be a spec monster the real benefit here is the fact that's modular but you're definitely giving out a fair few specs to get there hey this guy's also walking an 8 megapixel camera so if we why not mr. Pulido here this doesn't look bad it might not be the most punchy image in the world but again 2014 specs are kind of a trend with this guy we also have 1080p video it looks decent but again the camera here is really nothing to be that impressed about most importantly we have a super-high resolution 2 megapixel front-facing camera for that awesome selfie action ok well that actually looks a little bit crunchy but you know you can take it apart the real advantage of using the fairphone 2 though with absolutely that modularity so it does bring a lot closer to something like a PC save some part goes down you can just swap it out when theory upgrade it with something better when it comes out and the purse themselves are actually not that expensive so you break the screen you want to replace it it's only going to cost you five hundred dollars even something that the camera module is only going to cost you about $40 to get a replacement so it's not exactly like you're going to break the camera very easily but one of the big draws of the fairphone 2 is that in theory as new and better things like cameras come out it's going to be fairly simple to just throw a new one in your phone and that's really where the idea of the fairphone 2 starts making a lot more sense so it's a decent phone today instead of throwing it away in a year or two when you're ready to upgrade to your next phone imagine instead where you throw in a new screen when something comes out a better processor bigger battery all of that kind of stuff should in theory give you a lot more life out of the phone unfortunately all this relies on the idea that fair phone is going to continue making modules and continue supporting the fair phone - that's obviously their idea but until more stuff comes out it's a little bit of a risk and that brings us around to one of the bigger downsides of the fairphone - Meli is it only available in Europe right now but it's pretty hard to get your hands on once you do it's not going to come cheap this guy runs about 530 euros which in American dollars is like 600 actually let me do that translational ok I didn't new thing but the answer is five hundred ninety two dot seventy four cents I pretend I knew that that's pretty much in full flagship territory well the phone is cool there's a lot of advantages it's hard to justify that kind of price for it to be fair a lot of people on Twitter are really curious about the idea of a modular smartphone so let me know in the comments below what would it take for you to buy a modular smartphone fair phone or otherwise let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one