Except that the phone you are describing already exists showing that it's not at all impossible. Google Fairphone. This message was written with one.
The "right to repair" doesn't give people the right to buy a Fairphone. They already have the right. It removes their right to buy other kinds of phone.
Building a small amount of concept phones is one thing, shipping (and supporting) 100 million devices a year, with extended warranties, quite another.
The laws of scale will make the Fairphone actually better and cheaper when more are produced (as they always do).
Actually, the iPhone 7 is specced to be able to survive up to 30 minutes of submersion in 1m water. iFixit had a demo where it survived 8 hours of submersion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIauEB3EMHY
> If you have evudence showing that the fairphone is less robust than other phone, please share it.
Given that it such a niche product, there isn’t a lot of info available on it. Most manufacturers don’t publish their loss/repair rates, but logic would dictate that more openings and loose connections would give more problems.
Also worth noting is that the Fairphone 2 is worse than the current flagship models on almost all metrics. It seems that this modularity does have its price, after all.
The Fairphone's specs are deliberately not top-of-the-line in order to give users better battery life. This is working spectacularly well as evidenced by the fact that my Fairphone 2 has twice the battery life than any of my iPhones ever had. That and repairability is worth much more to me personally than the possibility to submerge the phone in water. After all it's a phone not diving gear. To each their own, but no need to make overblown statements.
No, my original statement was that waterproofing would be all but impossible, which, unless you have an example of a waterproof modular phone, still stands.
> The Fairphone's specs are deliberately not top-of-the-line in order to give users better battery life.
A handy excuse. Still means you’re getting a slower phone, worse screen, camera, etc.
> That and repairability is worth much more to me than the possibility to submerge the phone in water.
Tell that to the thousands of people who were previously losing their phone to water damage every year.
And it’s not like an iPhone is not repairable, its just that you’ll need Apple to do it for you. A small price to pay for a better product.