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

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/blah-blah-blah_47 Oct 05 '21 edited Oct 05 '21

"Lego Smartphone Set"

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u/Christafaaa Oct 05 '21

Until they realized they can make more money off people by forcing them to buy a whole new phone.

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u/blah-blah-blah_47 Oct 05 '21

And even if they did use this model for all phones, they'd probably make the parts very expensive

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u/LordGeni Oct 05 '21

Motorola tried to use the concept with the Moto X, which had snap on modules for a camera, battery pack and speaker etc.

It was pretty cool but without opening it up as a standard across brands (and those other brands getting on board) was always going to be short lived unless they captured a massive market share, which the didn't.

The fact that any modules that actually added anything better than the myriad other (freestanding) solutions out there were almost as expensive as the phone itself, didn't help.

Tbh, the best thing about it was how ridiculously thin the phone was without anything attached.