fairphone??

Troy Benjegerdes hozer at hozed.org
Wed May 15 23:40:44 CEST 2013


Well, first you start with an existing phone design, where the 
production line is all tooled up, and you start with making
sure the tantalum in the capacitors is only from conflict-free
regions. That probably adds $2 per phone, and a whole lot of
arm-twisting with suppliers (which is the really expensive part)

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 06:30:07PM +0200, urodelo wrote:
> yep; i just wonder how can they keep the cost so low with 1500
> preordes and "fair working conditions, salary etc"... who really
> checks the working conditions in congo or wherever they produce it?
> 
> On Wed, 15 May 2013 17:38:05 +0200, Patryk Benderz
> <Patryk.Benderz at esp.pl> wrote:
> 
> >[cut]
> >>what do you think?
> >	AFAIR It was already posted and discussed here. It is cheaper than
> >GTA04 - they must have invested money to order bigger batch of phones.
> >Specifications looks nice. I still have my working phone, so will not
> >order it. And even if I was looking for some phone, sadly I can't afford
> >it :(. Even my company does not pay for smart phones more than 150-200
> >euro.
> >
> 
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