New themed case?

[Quarnero]

For sure, we are talking here mostly about Librem 5 back lid (battery cover that I don’t know if it is 0.7 or pricier 0.9 mm thick peace of polymer plastic) in another color. But if someone insists to have fun, why not to expect to replace/upgrade any L5 display with sapphire glass version (after fall down emergency). Only thing that matters (for me) here is repairability/DIY (long term investment and usage) of the phone. And interestingly there is no new comment on modularity? @Nami, is my comment out of subject here? But still, I’ve learned a lot (almost everything) about phone building blocks from here:

@amosbatto

It also means that SHIFT has to stock parts, which adds to the costs. You either have to buy in large batches and store parts or pay the elevated costs of small batches and finding more-expensive suppliers who will produce at small scale for you.

and from this reference here, from where is obvious that building (and replacement) parts are stocked in Hangzhou, China.

@Dwaff

Add to that the “I’m rich” app as well.

Why not, even by leaving cheaper Fairphone offer aside, if allowed (just matter of fine taste, nothing else, I just find SHIFTmq as an Chapeau! kind of product, in many ways), And YES, “I would be even richer”, in proper terms, but I need at least one additional/suitable option that I like better, to choose from, to buy Linux smartphone where I can self-change my battery (not in question here) and few other things when I like to invest into the new peace of my smartphone’s HW (and not throw it away because irreparable, again and again). Would L5 be an expensive phone if there is no need to throw such LTE version away, ever (while being able to swap Evergreen MBR to Fir MBR, if feasible, if Evergreen, Fir or etc. batch needs to be repaired some day at all)? Do I need to say that I’m not working for Purism in any way? Yet not against either, we already understand, hope so, why electronic parts and low-power electronics are expensive (for all, not just for Purism by leaving any +/− sort of philosophy aside, just not to cause another “earthquake” here).

Back to the topic: I know already I cannot choose more RAM/STORAGE option for my L5 but I might be able to choose another back lid color before delivery (as not receiving Dogwood batch anyway), by not paying a single cent for such (sort of kindness) offer from Purism.

And please, all above is without even slight attempt to underestimate (in contrary) what still counts :

@nicole.faerber

A modular approach also requires more space since you need extra connectors to connect the modules. We will not have this space since we use up any possible space by separating things (baseband, GPS, CPU etc.). Integrated designs with mobile+WiFi+GNSS inside the same chip package as the CPU save a lot of space/room, which we can not So we will end up with bigger device anyway and we do not want to make it even bigger by adding the complexity of modules.

Though I fully understand your concern and wish!

Once we have a case design (I mean a design and fit of internal parts) we can discuss with the manufacturer a possible solution so that users might be enabled to replace the mainboard by a later version, e.g. with i.MX8 and so at least reuse case, display, battery etc. I can not promise anything right now but we will surely keep this in mind.

Cheers
nicole