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[Lukas Märdian]

Am 26.10.2012 22:08, schrieb Radek Polak:
> On Friday, October 26, 2012 09:00:52 PM Onen wrote:
>> a though crossed my mind. Would that make sense, to create the inner
>> part of the phone, but compatible with an existing case. For example,
>> let's say you make a phone compatible with case and screen of an iphone
>> 1, or 2, or any other phone which had great success. This could provide
>> a lot of spare parts for little cost.
>>
>> Does that make any sense?
>
> If you can buy the case as separate part for reasonable price then it could. 
> But i dont think iPhone case can be bought separately. And you have to take 
> into account how fast are all these devices obsolete.

Another problem with "commercial" cases are its displays and the display
connectors/protocol particularly. As there is no documentation available
for e.g. iphone displays we would have to reverse engineer them.

> Btw i have talked with guy who designed aluminium CNC made case for 
> Freerunner/GTA04. His main problem (and i hit the problem too with wooden 
> case) is that the PCB shape and buttons on it are quite complicated. If it was 
> flat rectangle it would be much easier. Also some parts need quite high 
> precision - like the earpiece or gsm antenna - i am still surprised that it 
> still works in my printed case...

The 3D printing technology works barely. Some parts had to be modified
to be printable. In my latest version of the printed case I modified the
Earpiece "connector" to fit the original Phillips earpiece, this works
pretty good now.

Cheers,
  Lukas
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