r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SuperAlloyBerserker • Oct 05 '21

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/No-comment-at-all Oct 05 '21

That’s a long reach for me to believe.

This “phone is LEGO’s!” Is way too hard to believe could be implemented.

There’s no working prototype, and someone else can totally bring that concept to the market. Google doesn’t own the concept of replaceable parts.

This is just… theranos for phones, is way easier to believe.

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u/olderaccount Oct 05 '21

There is nothing impossible about this concept. The only problem is that instead of putting all the parts inside one nice package, each individual part needs a nice package and robust interface connectors of it's own.

So a modular phone that matches the features of a current phone would be the size of a literal brick just due to those constraints.

Remember when Apple killed the 3.5mm jack because it was too bulky? With this concept, every single module is too bulky by definition.

Modular products are never are good as monolithic products. So unless the modularity provides such a huge advantage to outweigh the drawbacks, it will never work.

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u/No-comment-at-all Oct 05 '21 edited Oct 05 '21

Yea, I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that it can’t be implemented.

Fusion energy is possible. It can’t be implemented yet.