You Can Build This Smartphone #Helpful Post

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outdated the idea is that you can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