Topic: The Phonebloks Upgradeable Smartphone. Rate or Hate?

[leightot]

A concept called Phonebloks takes that modular PC goodness and applies it to smartphones. It’s an interesting idea. Would you buy it?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c[/youtube]

[MasterChief63]

[stanlee1201]

i like the idea.choose your own style.

[warak2006]

this sounds great on paper but i think it has a lot of problems in application.

1. the phone would be way thicker than what we have now
2. possibility of loose connections
3. the cost of all the blocks you need would be more than a comparable phone
4. sizes of blocks.
5. block incompatibilities. Think, DDR1 to DDR2 and the like.

[stanlee1201]

this sounds great on paper but i think it has a lot of problems in application.

1. the phone would be way thicker than what we have now
2. possibility of loose connections
3. the cost of all the blocks you need would be more than a comparable phone
4. sizes of blocks.
5. block incompatibilities. Think, DDR1 to DDR2 and the like.

in terms of innovation, ninipis at ninipis yan.
5. syempre iisang manufacturer yan ang compatibility is still ok since same model lng.
sa 2 at 4 agree ako dyan.

[MasterChief63]

this sounds great on paper but i think it has a lot of problems in application.

1. the phone would be way thicker than what we have now
2. possibility of loose connections
3. the cost of all the blocks you need would be more than a comparable phone
4. sizes of blocks.
5. block incompatibilities. Think, DDR1 to DDR2 and the like.

1. Form vs Functionality, Functionality is what people would prefer
2. the locking mechanism would ensure no loose connections and design should render phone inoperable if there are loose connections
3. the beauty of the Modular design is for owners to buy what they can afford and save up for the Blocks they want, there should also emerege a Market where Blocks can be traded aside from just being sold much like in the DSLR world, not everyone wants the most expensive Blocks since no everyone needs them, owners can just buy what they want WITHOUT restrictions like what Phone manufacturers do
4. to keep the uniformity of the phone blocks should be of the same thickness and adjusts to the needs of the components in them, like the battery or memory
5. modular design alows the ability to adjust to what ram can be used by the system

[MiKeDaCuTe]

pumunta ako sa site nila for supporting their idea.

any devices have their own issues pero may solution naman nahahanap. suportahan na lang natin.

[bAnaNa nUt cRunCh]

I think any problem this blokphone would come up, the phone companies can easily hIandle. I mean, look at Samsung. They're already developing phones with flexible screens. Simple blocks shouldn't be a problem to them.

I think the phone companies should just come in between for this phone.

[Pierro7]

I'd already cast my vote with this one.
It would be better if they have a working sample para mas convincing. 

[Kurimasu]

I support this one. May unit ba sila na working na just like Kapatid Pierro said para makita naman natin kung talagang totoo na gumagana?

[Ms. X]

Ipopost ko sana to, posted na pala and I support this idea. And oo nga, sana may evidence naman na gumagana nga to at least one smartphone.

[bored]

seems that Motorola are developing this already, they call it ProjectAra
http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hello-ara.html

[MasterChief63]

seems that Motorola are developing this already, they call it ProjectAra
http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hello-ara.html

Upadate about Project ARA already POSTED