Nokia lets Lumia 820 owners 3D print their own case
Nokia has posted the templates 3D printer users need to make their own shell or case for its Lumia 820 smartphone. The mobe is already designed to swap some of its plastic parts, with the rear plate available as inert plastic or one of Nokia's inductive charging gadgets. Three different batches of files are offered to DIY mobe- …
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Re: I'm sure the handfull of real Windows Phone users are delighted
Or you can design what you want and email it off to an Internet 3D printing bureau and they'll send it back to you.
Re: I'm sure the handfull of real Windows Phone users are delighted
This is not really aimed at consumers at home to make them, it is for small local businesses to offer services.
So you can walk into a shop and have your own logo or image on a case.
Honestly, Barry you have no imagination. Don't ever start a business whatever you do.
Not for amateurs
None of the rep rap / makerbot printers have anything like the precision to churn out a phone case which doesn't look really awful and have serious issues snapping shut. The effort might have greater success if it spurs Chinese manufacturers to spew out hundreds of colourful phone covers like they used to do in the days of yore for the 3210 and similar models.
it sounds like a nice idea from Nokia but i think the problem will be the percentage of people who own a 3D printer and also a Lumia is going to be about 0.000001% of the population.
Hopefully in might encourage all manufacturers to do this in the future though for when 3D printers do become more common.
Anyone who can afford a 3D printer, could afford a 920
So providing they haven't got any prejudices against NoWin. (e.g. upset about a previous OS being dropped like a hot potato) there could be a market, and given how bad things are for Nokia smart phones, any market has to be good.
Otherwise they will just wait a few weeks until an Android firm does the same.
Re: Anyone who can afford a 3D printer, could afford a 920
"So providing they haven't got any prejudices against NoWin. (e.g. upset about a previous OS being dropped like a hot potato"
Doesn't sound like prejudice - sounds like commonsense
Meh
Who cares about printing a new case?
Give us something that can print a new CEO.
Missing the point of 3d printing...
3d printing is ideal for low volume runs and you can print via services like shapeways.
Having accurate 3d models for a phone case could open up a range of cases that you'd never produce in volume - and I'm thinking work type applications. E.g. a clipboard which has the phone case as part of it to hold it steady, a case with loops to allow it to be held securely by a lanyard, etc...
For some corporates it could also be attractive to be able to design and print their own custom case with logo.
Re: Missing the point of 3d printing...
Yours is the only suggestion for a use case for 3D printing that has made any sense whatsoever - congratulations!
As others have said: your typical hobbyist 3D printer won't be able to hold the tolerances needed to make a case work - you need a professional grade printer for that. The cost of printing a case with such a printer exceeds the cost of finding the case you want, ordering it, and having it shipped to you.
But yes, if you are making a clipboard with the phone slotted in to it, or a custom dashboard inlay, or other ideas beyond a simple snap-over case, then this does become brilliant, and I hope other phone makers will see fit to follow suit.
Re: Missing the point of 3d printing...
It might be worth looking at a material called Kydex for phone holders... it most common hobbyist application is for gun holsters and knife sheaves- the sheet of Kydex is heated and formed around the object it will house. When cooled it retains flexibility and can be sanded etc.
I'm sick of hearing the same old shite on the site.
WinPhone8 is great. I don’t care that the world is full of sheepish "people" who have no opinion of their own, following the crowd and waffling the same crap time and time again, with 99% not having any hands on experience.
The first person to mention apps needs killed. Who cares the Crapple App store has thousands of USELESS and CRAPPY apps? A few useful apps is all one needs.
@Obviously!
Hallelujah! (and no, I don't use a Windows phone, but this post makes sense)
@Obviously!
Can you tell me please, how can I put the certificates on a windows phone (7 or 8, you choose), to configure an Exchange mail account without mailling them to an webmail account?
Re: @Obviously!
You can't, which sucks. Massively sucks.
That, and the lack of banking apps, are the two main reasons I don't recommend WP. If the banks stopped their "iphone is enough" thing and MS fixed that fucking security issue, it'd be a top flight OS.
Re: @Obviously!
Dogged, - you would trust a Windows phone with your online banking?
Have you learned nothing from history?
Re: @Obviously!
@Jah Bless: I used skydrive for my phones (first a wp7.5 then a wp8) and loaded them on that way. You could also point your phone at a local exchange server, mail the key to the phone's user and download it over an internal wifi connection. Once you've installed the key you can then set it up for internet hosted push email.
I'm sure there are other ways, but these are the only ones I've tried.
Re: @Obviously!
@Eadon.
Surely trusting an Windows phone with your banking details is pretty much exactly the same as trusting an Android phone with your banking details? Both have their fair share of security issues. Or do you have some actual comparisons of security between the two OS's that proves Windows is worse in this particular use case?
Re: @Obviously!
I wouldn't trust any phone with my online banking.
3/10 for making me reply to the troll
So you wasted your money on Windows Phone
and you want everyone else to make the same mistake... we get that...
I have several Windows Phones here (as dev units), and I would never use one for real use, they are simply too buggy, rubbish battery life, and no apps. Really given a Nexus4 is so cheap, there is absolutely NO reason to own any of the Lumia range.
Re: So you wasted your money on Windows Phone
Is that you Eadon?
@James Hughes 1
Actually, Eadon doesn't like to mention this but, partially because of the walled garden approach and partly because it's simply so much younger (as RyokuMaas points out, less than 2 years old), WP has almost no history of vulnerability at all.
There was a text you could get that would reset the phone, but that's pretty much it.
Whereas the current list of Android malware is quite depressing reading and a new vulnerability is reported every week.
NB - I'd like it known that I am actually quite sad about the fact that Android has holes in it. I suspect there are holes in WP too, it's just that nobody's found them yet. And of course, the market share is lower which means it's less of a vector for attack. Ironically, this is the exact (and only) reason that linux vulnerabilities are less common than non-mobile Windows vulnerabilities, despite what liars may claim.
Re: @James Hughes 1
@Dogged - I've said it before, and I'll say it again: there's no such thing as a secure system, just a system that's not going give a big enough result to make it worth going after.
If WP takes off - and I hope it does, not because I have any particular love for Microsoft, but because I believe that healthy competition is essential to drive market growth and innovation - I dare say it will only be a matter of time before someone finds a hole in it. The walled garden will help, but if it starts to prove worthwhile, the hackers will be there...
Re: @Obviously!
@Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2013 13:08 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Let me explain straight away: I want to put t the damn bloddy certs on the phone, not in the sky high nor a wacky wi-fi network that don't exist for many reasons security included. So, whats my point? If Windows Phone its the next big thing, how on Earth I can't upload the stupid certs on the phone using the Zune software for example?*SIGH*....
Hardware Piracy
Bit off topic, but I wonder how long it will be until hardware piracy will become the vogue?
I remember the days before broadband, if you wanted some dodgy software there were people over in Asia ready and willing to sell you DVD's of pirated apps and games. I remember being able to email some dude over in Indonesia and get a jiffy bag full of 'HK Silvers' for the PSX as well as Windows apps.
With 3D printers becoming more and more accessible to the ordinary person, I wonder how long it will be until we can print our own knock-off iPhone clones, without having to buy them from Chinese websites?
Re: Hardware Piracy
Well, until they can print silicon, tantalum, lithium, cadmium and a raft of other metals, plus do 60nm or whatever to print the processors, i think a long time!!!
Re: Hardware Piracy
With 3D printers becoming more and more accessible to the ordinary person, I wonder how long it will be until we can print our own knock-off iPhone clones, without having to buy them from Chinese websites?
"We" - - Who actually buys a clone iPhone?
Re: Hardware Piracy
@Cornz 1 - I suspect the comment was more along the lines of "How long 'till we see knock off lego."
Re: Hardware Piracy
>"How long 'till we see knock off lego."
You'd have a helluva job... Lego is injection moulded to very high tolerances. I did stumble across a tech website recently that plotted the standard deviation for Lego bricks made in different decades. Making Lego bricks is the very opposite of what you'd want a 3D printer for.
Re: Hardware Piracy
@Dave: These guys seem to have had a good go at it: http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
Re: Hardware Piracy
Ohhh, I see- 'adaptor bricks' to allow different brands of construction kit to be used together! Nice.
Yeah, making individual parts to be used with (or replace broken parts of) existing manufactured products is exactly what 3D printing is good for.
(though still not for making thousands of identical units, which is what I thought was meant)
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