The rear camera goes up from 8 megapixels to 12 while the selfie unit goes from 2 to 5 megapixels. And you don't toss the phone you have.
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OG modular Fairphone 2 is still alive, still supported, getting Marshmallow update ‘soon’
Too late for an Android Marshmallow upgrade? Not as far as the long-forgotten modular Fairphone 2 is concerned.
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Why Nextbit’s crowdsourced momentum beats out other projects like it
Nextbit is a small band of rebels who want to free people from the limits of today’s mobile technology, or at least that’s how Nextbit describes itself.The device the company is peddling is called “robin”, and it promises to be a superphone that lives in the cloud. Let me pause for a moment while you “ooh” and “ahh” over all the buzz words and promises. M’kay, ya done now? Good. Let’s move on.Nexbit, at the core, is a crowdsourced phone maker – just like Yotaphone, Fairphone, and others.YotaphoneYotaphone fell flat on its ...
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Project Ara rearranging pieces for pilot launch schedule
Hey! It’s Project Ara! We still remember that ambitious group of people who wanted to build a modular smartphone for the masses, right? Well, they’ve been a bit socially silent since Google I/O 2015. Furthermore, their schedule’s been all out of wack: Ara was supposed to have made its way to Puerto ...
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Fairphone vs. Project Ara: who to bet on at this point?
Furniture. Cafeteria food. Swiss army knives. All of these, when done well, can be a success when made modular. Well, we’re watching two companies as they try to make pieces of the smartphone: Dutch outfit Fairphone and Google-managed development effort, Project Ara.Fairphone has already released a first iteration of its device with the Fairphone 2 on the way. Ara’s still in the larva stage with test markets only staring to get first-wave parts. But each ...
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Fairphone 2 intends to teach Project Ara how to do modular right
We’ve kept a close eye at Project Ara over the last couple of years, and yes, we did say years. This project was born in Motorola, adopted by Google, but has taken for ever to launch to consumers. Modular smartphones have been a dream of many of us for years, and a new company plans to provide a better solution.Fairphone is a dutch startup that already garnered some fame a few years ago by crowdfunding a smartphone ...
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