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also the video and concepts kept making me think of how hot a big metallic "speed block" would be against my hand
Lots of people seem to agree this concept is appealing indeed, but physically impossible.
I remember when it was physically impossible to fit 32 GIGs of data in my jeans pocket...
as poorly thought out as this looks, what I wouldn't give for a smart phone with a very low resolution e-ink swapped in screen plus the opportunity to replace all the camerawork,sensors, storage , etc with more battery. At least this may get someone thinking about the idea. also the video and concepts kept making me think of how hot a big metallic "speed block" would be against my hand
Mirasol on the other hand, has a ton of potential, and it seems to improve the overall battery life of a device by at least 3x (which means the display itself should be many times more efficient than LCD). Too bad nobody has picked up yet (other than Qualcomm themselves [1]) to use it into a line of products, so we can see improvements done faster to it (such as to color accuracy, gamut, contrast, animation speed, etc).
[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/09/07/ifa-2013-hands-on-wi...
Remember when desktop PC where made from interchangeable components? How many people actually upgraded them instead of buying a new, boxed one?
Remember when desktop PC where made from interchangeable components? How many people actually upgraded them instead of buying a new, boxed one?
I upgraded RAM, video card, sound card, added more hard drives, retired old ones. Later on I replaced CPU+motherboard (unfortunately you can rarely just upgrade the CPU).
If you're not lazy, this can save you quite a lot of money.
Phones are nothing like PCs, and will not be for a long time. It would take some crazy engineering to make them lego-like, or even plain upgradeable.
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A lot of people did and still do. And that was actually quite 'hard' because you had to touch micro electronics. If you make PCs (phones, laptops) out of Lego, people will do it much faster and more often. Going to a gig? Pull out the bluetooth, plug in the midi block. Going on the road in 2 countries? Pull an USB block, plug in a second 4G. Etc. Edit; not saying this is a good idea for a phone, but to some extend it…
Or buy the integrated phone that includes all of those features and doesn't make you swap them out and risk losing or damaging the blocks. Modularity often ends up being a _cost_ to the unsophisticated majority of end users. People don't like it in their software (preferring a "complete solution"), nor in their hardware (e.g. cheap integrated hifi versus expensive minority separates).
- like to change/tinker with their hardware - like to change/tinker with their software - like products which do one thing and do it well
Hmm. Would you buy phone components from people who can't do Unicode? "It�s pretty cool." Revenge of the SmartQuote.
as poorly thought out as this looks, what I wouldn't give for a smart phone with a very low resolution e-ink swapped in screen plus the opportunity to replace all the camerawork,sensors, storage , etc with more battery. At least this may get someone thinking about the idea. also the video and concepts kept making me think of how hot a big metallic "speed block" would be against my hand
E-ink has too many problems, and it's not very good for anything other than mostly static content. If you're thinking "like Pebble" - Pebble doesn't use e-ink. It's using a type of LCD similar to PixelQi. Mirasol on the other hand, has a ton of potential, and it seems to improve the overall battery life of a device by at least 3x (which means the display itself should be many times more efficient than LCD). Too bad n…
For example, water-resistant phones are going to be hard to take apart, and that's a feature that will result in many fewer dead phones.
Packaging for mobile handsets is continuing to evolve. Any modular system would be obsolete long before it breaks even on repairability, upgradeability, etc.