A phone with replaceable parts is a really bad idea and an engineer's nightmare, even though it's motorola and google and supposedly parts would have their own designated places I still don't trust this at all. And I've never really seen how the "less phone garbage!" argument works, because now it's just a quicker turnaround of smaller parts. Instead of chucking your whole phone away every three years you throw away the camera every one? greeeeat.
Would give myself the nightmare of having one, if i could afford it.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;42685139]A phone with replaceable parts is a really bad idea and an engineer's nightmare, even though it's motorola and google and supposedly parts would have their own designated places I still don't trust this at all. And I've never really seen how the "less phone garbage!" argument works, because now it's just a quicker turnaround of smaller parts. Instead of chucking your whole phone away every three years you throw away the camera every one? greeeeat.[/QUOTE]
Surely they could recycle the materials in the broken parts, presuming they can be bothered?
I can see Google losing control of this in much the same way IBM lost control of their own "IBM PC" market and I hope with part standardisation will finally come a platform standardisation for Android phones.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;42685139]A phone with replaceable parts is a really bad idea and an engineer's nightmare, even though it's motorola and google and supposedly parts would have their own designated places I still don't trust this at all. And I've never really seen how the "less phone garbage!" argument works, because now it's just a quicker turnaround of smaller parts. Instead of chucking your whole phone away every three years you throw away the camera every one? greeeeat.[/QUOTE]
I think you mixed that up. It's an engineers wet dream and a sales analyst/managers nightmare.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;42685139]A phone with replaceable parts is a really bad idea and an engineer's nightmare, even though it's motorola and google and supposedly parts would have their own designated places I still don't trust this at all. And I've never really seen how the "less phone garbage!" argument works, because now it's just a quicker turnaround of smaller parts. Instead of chucking your whole phone away every three years you throw away the camera every one? greeeeat.[/QUOTE]
if you think about it like that, yeah this project would be pretty useless, but think about like if you were upgrading your PC. you could buy new computer part to upgrade your PC one part at a time instead of buying an entirely new one, and it's pretty much the same concept with this project.
some of the benefits are shown in the PhoneBloks video (pretty much same thing as this but a lot more of an 'engineer's nightmare'). drop your phone and break the display? just buy a new display. your phone can't handle newer games? buy a new processing unit.
imagine a world where people can build their own phones from scratch just like they would build a pc
[QUOTE=ManiacKiller;42685293]if you think about it like that, yeah this project would be pretty useless, but think about like if you were upgrading your PC. you could buy new computer part to upgrade your PC one part at a time instead of buying an entirely new one, and it's pretty much the same concept with this project.
some of the benefits are shown in the PhoneBloks video (pretty much same thing as this but a lot more of an 'engineer's nightmare'). drop your phone and break the display? just buy a new display. your phone can't handle newer games? buy a new processing unit.
imagine a world where people can build their own phones from scratch just like they would build a pc[/QUOTE]
If people really could build their own phones, down to the core components like the processor, they'd be bulky as fuck. And the masses have shown time and time again that what they want is a sleek device that you can just turn on and use. That doesn't need upgrading, or replacements (unless it breaks), or buying it new parts every now and then. It's why console gaming, tablets, and prebuilt PCs are so popular.
Obviously the target for this thing is the same people who like building their own computers, but is that enough people to justify building an entire ecosystem of parts and part manufacturers from the ground up? I mean, hell, even PC builders care about portability. There is a market for, say, build-your-own-laptops, but it's so tiny it's not important in any way.
I thought i recognized that Dave Hakkens name somewhere.
[video=youtube;oDAw7vW7H0c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c[/video]
Let alone the entire concept of it all.
I'd get a phone like this. $200 to fix a tiny crack in my iPhone screen sucks. $75 to void warranty.
The geek in me loves this idea.
The other part of me knows how badly this will fail and end up failing horribly.
Cool idea, but can't help to think phones would end up ugly and bulky.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;42685139]A phone with replaceable parts is a really bad idea and an engineer's nightmare, even though it's motorola and google and supposedly parts would have their own designated places I still don't trust this at all. And I've never really seen how the "less phone garbage!" argument works, because now it's just a quicker turnaround of smaller parts. Instead of chucking your whole phone away every three years you throw away the camera every one? greeeeat.[/QUOTE]
Anything BUT a engineer's nightmare! It's an engineer's heaven! How do you think computer parts work? This isn't like phonebloks
I bet it would suck if you dropped it, it's bad enough when the back flies off as well as the battery.
You'd have to rebuild the whole thing :v:
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;42693695']I bet it would suck if you dropped it, it's bad enough when the back flies off as well as the battery.
You'd have to rebuild the whole thing :v:[/QUOTE]
Theres nothing stopping them adding a back plate or some kind of locking switch.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;42685139]A phone with replaceable parts is a really bad idea and an engineer's nightmare, even though it's motorola and google and supposedly parts would have their own designated places I still don't trust this at all. And I've never really seen how the "less phone garbage!" argument works, because now it's just a quicker turnaround of smaller parts. Instead of chucking your whole phone away every three years you throw away the camera every one? greeeeat.[/QUOTE]
Throwing away a 2x2cm^2 part is much better than throwing away a 6x12cm^2 phone. Also you'd have a lot less packaging from buying a new camera than you would from a whole phone.
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