Open design, exploitation-minimal "Fairphone" [Ars]

[Sleepingforest]

The Article
What do you guys think? It's certainly a bit underpowered compared to modern flagships, but the cost is a bit lower. It comes with Android and an open "special interface". The features:

• Mediatek 6589 quad-core CPU
• 4.3-inch qHD display
• 8-megapixel camera
• 16GB storage
• dual-band SIM (GSM850/900/1800/1900MHZ, WCDMA 900/2100MHz)
• user-replaceable battery
• microSD card slot

Seems kind of tempting, though the GSM/WCDMA only could be problematic, as could the skinning.

 

[ChronoReverse]

The Mediatek 6589 is a quad A7 running at 1GHz. Each of those cores is like a 700MHz A9. That's giving up a lot.

Wonder how much RAM it has. If it's 2GB then it might be somewhat interesting but $400 is a high price tag.

 

[Raghu]

^ 1GB

http://buy-a-phone-start-a-movement.fairphone.com/en/specs/