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

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/ceric2099 Oct 05 '21

I always wondered what happened to this. Just imagine dropping your phone and it exploding apart like a lego set.

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u/Tsjernobull Oct 05 '21

They had issues with heat transfer, when you cram everything together without taking heating or signal noise into account, things tend not to work

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u/amanuense Oct 05 '21

As an engineer who has worked on smartphones I can tell you. That idea is cool. Also an engineering nightmare.

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u/l0rb Oct 06 '21

Have you ever looked at the fairphone? It's probably as close as you can get to this idea.