It's not every day that a Youtube legend like Linus Tech Tips roasts your phone. We just had to get our co-founder and product manager Miquel to watch the wh...

I can’t believe some of the points Linus made against the Fairphone, especially given he’s onboard with the same compromises for the Framework laptop. 🤭

  • KyuubiNoKitsuneEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Pogo pins on the back of the phone, pads on the cover with the coil, and bam, you have a removable wireless charger and a replaceable battery.

    • ZMonster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I haven’t seen a single device (other than a two way handset) that uses that sort of function. You would have to slot your phone into a giant plastic base and I just don’t know why anyone would want that. Anything but that and the charge pins would be exposed and thusly a fire hazard. Spring loaded pins are a dinosaur in today’s tech market and no one, let alone a company that is trying to reduce waste, would use such an outdated and niche system.

      • KyuubiNoKitsuneEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I don’t think you fully understood (my fault for a shitty explanation)

        So you have the pogo pins on the back of the body of the phone, they connect to the back cover of the phone, the cover that covers the removable battery. The back cover has the coil integrated into it.

        You can make the coil be removable from the back cover to reduce waste if you decide to replace the back because it’s scratched or broken.

        The pogo pins are literally just to connect the wireless charging coil to the back of the phones cover when you close the phone up.