Forget The iPhone, Let's Support This Thing

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At some point, smartphone ownership can start to feel like a runaround. You buy the phone with the new! best! features! and a year later, Apple (or whoever) reveals a newer phone with the newer! bester! features! and your phone becomes obsolete. Enter Phonebloks, a brilliant modular concept phone.

The concept, from designer Dave Hakkens, is of a totally modular phone with separate "parts" that can be swapped out, removed, or upgraded, depending on the needs of the user. When they make a faster chip or a better screen, you could simply buy a new chip or screen without replacing the entire phone. If you just want a lot of disk space or battery juice and don't care about your camera, you could sacrifice the one for the other. Smart!

And sure, it may be unrealistic. It doesn't seem to be designed with profitability in mind, which would make it a tough sell for cell phone manufacturers. And I have no idea if it would even be possible to engineer something like this. (Though if they can put a freakin' fingerprint scanner on an iPhone, surely someone could make something like this work?)

But whatever, this idea is too appealing to ignore completely. Why not explore it? See what happens? You don't have to give them money to support the idea; all they ask is that people go to Thunderclap and lend them some social media push. And what's the harm, really? Phonebloks may never amount to anything, but you never know.

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Forget The iPhone, Let's Support This Thing

At some point, smartphone ownership can start to feel like a runaround. You buy the phone with the new! best! features! and a year later, Apple (or whoever) reveals a newer phone with the newer! bester! features! and your phone becomes obsolete. Enter Phonebloks, a brilliant modular concept phone.
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Like putting together a beast of a stationary computer, you could do the same with your phone.
I approve.
 
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Problem with a design like this is always the overhead. You are bound to lose performance and efficiency once you have interchangeable parts.
You have to keep in mind, even our desktop computers dont work this nicely. You can not put any kind of processor on any kind of motherboard. Same goes for the graphics cards.
The hardware manufacturers dont work together close enough to make something like that happen.
 
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Now this is a great idea, if they really get through with this "design", I'll going to get one for my entire family and all my friends, we NEED THIS, NOW.
 
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Too bad the smartphone industry is too much like the car industry. People relate to the branding of their phone ... and branding alone is worth a fortune. Companies will want to stick to developing said brands because they like easy money.

Well, not easy, there's work involved. But your gains are huge.
 
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Apparently his downfall was his obsession with fashion, and the inability to understand there are more than looks in this world!
 
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FireCat said:
Doesn't matter how it was before. The electronic and the Phone would be so much larger in size and ugly. Wouldn't it?
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Again with the looks...
Give it time man. The first mobile phones weren't exactly super models.
 
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Good bye, TH.net.
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LOL ^
Solu9 said:
Again with the looks...
Give it time man. The first mobile phones weren't exactly super models.
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I do give it time. But I can't see it working, and the looks well, let's see.
 
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