Comments on: Mobile Modularity – Rules of the road.

By: Google Ara Is DEAD! - Scholarship Developers

Google Ara Is DEAD! - Scholarship Developers — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 03:58:57 +0000

[…] post by blogger and analyst Dr Richard Windsor, suggests Google has tripped up on the fact that “a modular device is far harder than it […]

By: Google Ara: In 2017 Smartphones WILL Go Modular | Mobile Tricks

Google Ara: In 2017 Smartphones WILL Go Modular | Mobile Tricks — Tue, 24 May 2016 02:30:55 +0000

[…] post by blogger and researcher Dr Richard Windsor, suggests Google has tripped adult on a fact that “a modular device is distant harder than it […]

By: Walt French

Walt French — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:12:20 +0000

Add on to all these reasons the fact that the entire mobile phone industry has only two (highly integrated, fancy that) profitable phone manufacturers. New competition produces literally, billions of inexpensive phones that work well enough that the waste of throwing them away in two years is irrelevant—they’ll be handed to a family member or friend. Maybe, in 4 years, with tech having gone through almost as much change as the last 4, they’ll be stuck in a drawer or a recycling bin.

In other words, while the engineering case is solvable with enough time and loving attention, the business case was never there.

By: Week 34 | import digest

Week 34 | import digest — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:37:59 +0000

[…] notes emanating from Mountain View are sad trombones“. Another blog post outlines the “rules of the road” for a modular device, […]

By: Larry Bank

Larry Bank — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:11:06 +0000

The modular components that make sense on a phone are a removable battery and microSD memory card. The current trend is for these optional components to go away because the majority of the market doesn’t care deeply about them. Samsung was the last holdout and they are done with them as well. If any of these modular phones actually reach the market, they will be niche products with a very narrow group of supporters. The same trend is happening in the laptop space. It used to be possible to upgrade the memory, hard drive, and network card. People who care about the components now buy the more capable machine from the get-go and don’t worry about the hassle of upgrading it later.

One other issue that wasn’t mentioned in the blog post is that each generation of smartphone tends to get ALL of its components upgraded. It’s just so much less hassle for everyone involved to upgrade your entire device every couple of years and get a better display, CPU, camera, etc. all at once instead of having to source each part separately and hope that they will work together.

By: Hans Gerwitz

Hans Gerwitz — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:34:19 +0000

And I was really hoping to be proven wrong: http://safelyignored.com/phonebloks

By: windsorr

windsorr — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:08:13 +0000

Hi Juan…I will follow your progress with great interest….
Regards
Richard

By: Juan Díaz

Juan Díaz — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:52:59 +0000

Developing a new tech is never easy, quick or cheap. Even for entities plenty of resources like Google. We, at PuzzlePhone, are quietly and hard working to forge the whole structure to have the PuzzlePhone concept, not just the device, happening.
Is not easy, but is doable. And we are walking the walk.
Best
Juan
Puzzlephone Team.