Your Take On Phonebloks concept?

[hackingmind92]

Hope Your Guys Have Hear About The New Phonebloks concept, i personally find it really legit and it really could change the future of smartphones as well.

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[cbrunny]

Agree that it looks very cool and is a very cool concept.

But...very cautiously optimistic, with more than a hint of "this will never happen the way they claim"

 

[openwheel]

I would love it and be an early adopter, but I highly doubt it would materialize.

 

[zaydq]

Nifty... but i doubt carriers, or oems, will ever allow this concept to materialize.

 

[Red Storm]

I think it's a really cool concept, but that's all I see it as, a concept.

 

[OS]

These guys have obviously never heard of the "FCC" and I'm not sure any actual EEs even worked on the concept.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Would be nice. Now would they offer this in a 4", 4.5" and 5" variety? Because it seems like screen size does matter in this market.

 

[zaydq]

Would be nice. Now would they offer this in a 4", 4.5" and 5" variety? Because it seems like screen size does matter in this market.

Probably would offer different mainblock sizes.

 

[Crono]

I like the concept and want to see something like this come to fruition. Building your own phone currently isn't an easy task for anyone to do individually, so a "LEGO" approach to phone customization sounds perfect for computer enthusiasts like many of us are.

 

[zebrax2]

Cool concept but i just don't see it being feasible

 

[hans007]

given companies are removing things like battery doors, etc, just to keep phone sizes down....

this is probably technically unfeasable. either that or you'd have a gigantic phone. just to build whatever it takes to house each individual block would waste volume, not to mention this magical "base backplane" would have to be designed to actually route things in some magic way.

 

[Stuka87]

I just don't see how they could work in the video as they present it. The device would be far more bulky than I think anybody would care for. Soon as you add pins and sockets, the thickness is going to double from what phones are today.

 

[WelshBloke]

How's that going to work?

You can't just randomly connect a bunch of smartphone parts and get a working smartphone.

 

[kasakka]

Completely unfeasible. The current trend is to cram more stuff on a System on Chip design, meaning that there are no separate parts to update. The number one thing that actually takes space on a phone is the battery. You wouldn't be able to accommodate a much larger one by taking out components.

 

[gorcorps]

given companies are removing things like battery doors, etc, just to keep phone sizes down....

this is probably technically unfeasable. either that or you'd have a gigantic phone. just to build whatever it takes to house each individual block would waste volume, not to mention this magical "base backplane" would have to be designed to actually route things in some magic way.

I just don't see how they could work in the video as they present it. The device would be far more bulky than I think anybody would care for. Soon as you add pins and sockets, the thickness is going to double from what phones are today.

Agreed with these. Everything will be bulkier because of the connectors and plastic case around each component. Stupid idea

 

[Imaginer]

These guys have obviously never heard of the "FCC" and I'm not sure any actual EEs even worked on the concept.

I just don't see how they could work in the video as they present it. The device would be far more bulky than I think anybody would care for. Soon as you add pins and sockets, the thickness is going to double from what phones are today.

This. Even if the pins and backplane are only for power regulation, the numerous localized wireless communications will be of an interference nightmare along with wireless regulations.

I am confident some forum readers know the data bus nightmare that will ensue if one were to whimsically place these blocks where ever location as the video depicted.

And if I have problems with more than a handful of 2.4GHz devices in a household at times and in the same room, what makes an even purely wireless data interconnect even better?

 

[Imaginer]

A better solution is to actually improve material reclamation processes with retired devices.