PHONEBLOKS -A Phone Worth Keeping?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c"]Phonebloks - YouTube

^This phone looks like it would be awesome.

If you think you'd like to have one, they need your help getting this idea off the drawing board.. http://www.phonebloks.com/

~Only 45 days left to add your vote. :2thumbsup:

 

do want..

 

Great idea, but I bet it won't get far. I hope I'm wrong though.

 

^ This.

Looks awesome though.

 

As a service technician, I fully understand first hand the frustration of dealing with disposable technology. Apple is IMO the worst offender. Especially the ipod touch design. It is appalling that someone should have to take a heat gun and pry apart a fragile screen barbarically just for something as trivial as replacing a battery. And with many devices the digitizer glass touch surface is fused to the LCD, so the whole screen needs replacing instead of just the glass. Instead of buying a $5-10 part, you're forced to order a $60-120+ part.

Unfortunately this block design will never work for many reasons. Having a backbone with hundreds and hundreds of pogo/socket/clip pressure connectors will increase the size drastically. It will also increase the points of failure more than tenfold. Another huge problem these "blocks" random separate components; wifi chips, cameras, NAND flash, RAM and SOC processors are NOT simply interchangeable. The operating system firmware is compiled specifically for the installed hardware and SOC and written to the NAND storage. To add support for a whole range of devices adds massive bulk to the the NAND firmware partition, commonly called the ROM. This opens up a massive potential for software issues and much longer boot up times.

This idea has so many failure points and obstacles, not to mention the different companies will never come together. This device would be such a sketchy disaster even the most passionate supporters would be trashing it within days. The answer is a lot simpler. Pressure companies like apple to make more serviceable phones and ipods. Make digitizers and LCD's separate, have cases that can be taken apart without heat guns and prying tools, facilitate reasonable motherboard upgrade options that are compatible with first generation cases and screens...

 

Good old fashioned survival of the fittest. Why the financial electronic tape line for essentially prototyping the content of being deluded with the ethics of
fooling the computer buyer that he is using the experience of the same profits the salesman was disposing at him?