Phonebloks.

"Otto" (Otto-TheSillyCarsLover) 09/11/2013 at 08:07 • Filed to: phone

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A lovely concept. But probably nothing will come out of it. Capitalism and stuff...

Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa > Otto 09/11/2013 at 08:20

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This is one of the best ideas ever. I hate buying new smarthphones. They seem just too much of a waste of money. Such thing will be perfect for me, sadly as you said, most probably will never happen, because of greed and capitalism. Also not enfugh people will want something like that, because they will feel that this is not exclusive/special enough.

Also the given site is not working.

Kailand09 > Otto 09/11/2013 at 08:24

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Engineering nightmare, it won't happen. This dude has no technical background, and there no way currently to do something like this. Circuit design and placement is a field in itself. This throws that out the door.

Cool idea, bad in practicality.

Jayhawk Jake > Otto 09/11/2013 at 09:27

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Cool idea, but super optimistic. It doesn't sound like the guy has a technical knowledge of how this would work, and I can't see how it would. How could you possibly make one circuit board that supports a bunch of different configurations in a uniform package? I don't think you can...

Mattbob > Otto 09/11/2013 at 09:48

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haha, this is why designers and engineers can't get along. This idea isn't feasible in the way that they present it. The integration and miniaturization in a current gen phone to get it so small makes this kind of modularization impossible. To add packaging around each component, and have such big pins as to make them user serviceable would render the device huge. Furthermore, 2 screws might seem okay at first, but when you actually used something like that, it would end up being a creaky flexible turd. Not to mention the reliability issues all of these non permanent connections between components would create. That is just off the top of my head. This is just another case of designers running wild in fantasy land again.

CobraJoe > Otto 09/11/2013 at 10:59

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As cool as this would be, I don't think it'd work for a smart phone. This idea requires all pin ports to recognize what has been plugged in, and adjust the power supply, data, ground, and other communication pins accordingly. That requires a crazy amount of design and processing ability just to allow for the adaptability.

Plus, because everything has to effectively be a "smart component", that is, they all must be able to communicate like each other, it means each device must have it's own built in processing. Kind of like USB, everything you plug in must be able to communicate by itself using the same protocol. That'll eat up more battery and processing power.