Thread: [Backcover] Jolla's "Other Half" - Ideas and Suggestions
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2013-07-14 , 20:52
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Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
It's probably already decided that the other half will be a kind of backcover but if it was my decision, I would really split the phone in half, and put the camera and battery in the back. This would allow more upgradeability and really different configurations for different usecases. Want a cheap slim phone? Buy it with a 5mpix shooter and a small battery. Want a camera; get the 12mp protruding back with tripod mount. Back cover may also hold extra emmc.

It has it's drawbacks that backcovers won't be cheap, so getting more of them just to change colors won't be easy, but we have cases for that
Problem is that manufacturing wise that kind of modularity is pretty much as expensive as it can get. Something Jolla has no luxury of. Hell, just offering more than 2 colors seems to be too expensive for these big manufacturers.
Neither can anybody expect any 3rd party to make big investments to provide improved camera on a "other half".

Sure maybe (?) it could be engineering wise possible to actually put the phone in half, but it would be quite of risk to leave it with really crappy hardware and expect there to be better parts in the future.


That said, I would be all for cut the phone in half if it was possible as i'am quite concerned that the current "second half" to flop quite badly.
Last edited by tissot; 2013-07-16 at 16:09.
 

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