• GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Interesting about about 2k, to give a nice round number.

    Voyagers is estimated to have insufficient power for communication by 2032, so from its launch we’ll get a rounded 60 year battery life. Fairphone doesn’t have plutonium batteries (though that would be pretty cool) but you can replace batteries. Let’s say you replace the battery every 2 years which means you need 30 batteries. At 40€ a piece the cost of batteries is 1200€(and you get one extra battery with the phone). Add in the cost of the phone with the delivery of phone + 30 batteries and it comes out to about 2k.

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      8 months ago

      you have to charge those though, Voyager doesn’t need charged

      • GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I guess that’s the downside of not having a miniature reactor in your phone.