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      Same! But the beauty of it is that this effectively creates a competitive advantage for Fairphone. Fairphone is already compliant, while all other smartphone companies will have to develop this from ~scratch.

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          From what I understand it doesn’t have all the right bands to work well in the USA. Also I’m not sure IP54 is enough to use the phone in a rainstorm which I do pretty often. Didn’t realize it was that low.

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        Depends on where you live and what service provider you use. There is quite a bit of overlap between European and American cell frequencies, but it’s not something you can just assume will work.

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      The main problem with Fairphone is… It won’t come to the US. However, I am very happy that this will affect Apple, because I am making the switch from Android to iOS. I know that Apple won’t be stupid enough to have two separate plants, one to make EU Compatible phones, and one to make Global phones.

      The costs for such a thing would be inordinately high even for Apple.

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        It’ll be interesting to see what Apple does, between this and the USB-C mandate.

        Considering they currently sell multiple phone form factors, they may just decide that the EU gets more expensive phones with removable batteries and USB-C, and the rest of the world continues to get what they’ve got.

        Also, I’ll be interested to see how “removable” gets defined. I’ve replaced iPhone batteries, so they’re technically removable.

        Or, Apple might claim that their MagSafe battery packs make them compliant.

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        Nah, the main problem of the FairPhone is it’s water resistance. Which is the lowest of low. Not quite sustainable in that regard: youre always one wet pocket away from disaster.

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      It’s unfortunate that Fairphone sucks in other ways (such as having limited firmware updates due to using an old SoC, as I understand it).