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An idea for a new cell phone

11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
edited October 2013 in General Discussion
Called "Phonebloks." I really like this idea...I hope it goes into production.

https://phonebloks.com/idea/
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    Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,372 ******
    edited November -1
    I fail to see how it remotely solves the problem. The only part you keep is the part that connects all the various blocks. Big whoop. It's a lot like saying "I kept the charging cord for iPhones v1-v4".[:o)]
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    RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It will never make it.
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    ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Don't see much potential in it.
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    montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 58,142 ******
    edited November -1
    I don't do cell phones,,[^][^]
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    1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    its perfect and simple, but i doubt it will ever see production, it would solve too many problems, that would be like asking a pharmaceutical company to cure cancer
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    jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,224 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    These teenagers will like it.
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    ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    There are practical issues with such an approach.

    Form factor, the base does not change. It sets minimum size, minimum weight, perhaps some maximum parameters as well. This limits the evolution of the design, confines it. Consumer electronics that cannot adapt and evolve, die off.

    Taking it further - Every time someone has come out with a standard interconnect scheme for a piece of consumer technology, the technology evolves until the interconnect scheme is obsolete. This takes weeks and months, never years.

    For those familiar with the innards of the personal computer, think about how many bus schemes there have been? How many video standards? Audio standards? Expansion slot standards? External I/O standards?

    The basic platform of this phone idea would have to withstand technology evolution, and it cannot. Nothing ever does. As quickly as the novelty of the idea wears off and new technology becomes incompatible, the basic idea will become obsolete.
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    WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,857 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I certainly appriciate that they saved me the trouble of spelling "blocks". That was a 20% reduction in wasted letters just in the name- Amazing!
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    Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,513 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lego my cell phone.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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    FEENIXFEENIX Member Posts: 10,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A phone idea by a bloke!
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