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Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US(arstechnica.com)

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Belgdore@lemm.ee
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Years ago google was looking at doing a modular phone. It was basically a frame with modules on the back that contained the battery, storage, cameras, and even the processor. The screen was even replaceable in a similar way. I really want someone to do another project ara.

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CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I remember that, I liked the idea except for Google being involved. The dream would be a fully modular phone running Linux. I don’t ever see that becoming a reality, but hey.

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Bilb!@lem.monster
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Right, getting a Linux phone to work well still hasn’t been achieved, let alone on modular hardware!

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copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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What do you mean by “running Linux”? Android is Linux.

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CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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By that logic MacOS is FreeBSD. Android has a modified Linux kernel, doesn’t run GNU software or basically any Linux applications natively and it has a bunch of Google proprietary crap on top of it, when I mean “running Linux” I mean running a FOSS GNU/Linux distro.

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TheLightItBurns@lemmy.world
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I think that was called project aria or ara… something like that. A fully modular phone seems so great! I hope that concept is used someday like the Framework uses on their laptops for ports.

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