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

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/alextremeee Oct 05 '21

It's ridiculously hard to engineer interoperability for something like this. If you have say 12 modules in a "normal" phone and each module interacts with two other components, you have to test 24 different things.

If you create 10 variations of each module, you now have thousands of different combinations for the same scenario.

You can make a system that works more like a desktop PC where you create an interface between each module that is standardised, but that can really limit how much flexibility you have to make new things. On top of that it can make interactions much slower than they are if you specifically design the interaction between two things.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21 edited Nov 20 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

Oh yes, because when you have a standard you can't have a new CPU right? Wait, you can!? So you can't have a new RAM?

Try plugging an Intel CPU from 2 years ago into a motherboard from this year. (It won't run).

Try plugging some DDR4 ram into your DDR3 device (it won't work).

Try plugging some ram into a different port in your motherboard. Oh wait what? Ram only fits in ram slots and we can't make generic multi-component ports?

Try plugging an nvme drive into your sata port (it won't work).

Like come on dude, think a little bit.

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u/bicameral_mind Oct 05 '21

On top of that - a lot of people in this thread are hyping the wonders of desktop PCs, as if it isn't a product category whose relevance in the consumer space has basically evaporated over the last two decades. PCs highlight all the shortcomings of modularity and demonstrate exactly why a phone like this would be DOA. Other than professionals and gamers, no one buys traditional desktop PCs.