Google's modular Ara smartphone to arrive in 2015
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- Anonymous
- jKr
- 16 Apr 2014
Imagine this.
Its been plan to release next year.
do you see it be comparable to the next galaxy, Xperia or Nexus?
so the promise of keeping up the technology without throwing an whole phone away already is false.
The second promise of saving money is also false.
they want to build and sell this phone cheap but making it modular achieves the opposite. It involves so many extra steps to work that a complete phone don't require.
and again software support will be an nightmare.
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- AnonD-168288
- YT1
- 16 Apr 2014
Gooele has something akin to custom PC building for the smartphone. The OEMs are not going to like this but they will have to join the game of producing 'components' now.
Think of a Nokia camera module, Samsung Radio+SoC, Sony battery, Sharp IPS panels etc
This concept has the potential to make all OEM style smartphones pushed into the boutique niche. This will force OEMs to release really big leaps in improvements hardware and capability wise every time they have a new model, otherwise no one will bother with OEM phones anymore.
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- Anonymous
- qnN
- 16 Apr 2014
Will be an epic fail!!!!!!
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- Anonymous
- jKr
- 16 Apr 2014
Cool concept ,useless product.
Phones are already so versatile(in one slim package) and cheap.
building your own phone won't be cheap and you won't get a phone that perform as good as any latest phone even if you buy the latest parts.
and software support will become an difficult problem.
People are so use to getting rid of old device, do they really imagine people buying this and keep it longer than 2 years by choice?
The problem is that consumer are so seduced by manufacture's constant refreshing phones design and packing so much value into a neat little affordable package.
owning an self upgradable phone and keep longer than the current average upgrade cycle(1 to 2 years)just feels unattractive.
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- Anonymous
- iFx
- 16 Apr 2014
This is hardly Googles idea, see link
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2143560/before-project-ara-others-envisaged-a-modular-phone.html
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- darrr
- msV
- 16 Apr 2014
If they succeed they will dominate market forever. No more phones every year which costs 500$ form Apple and Samsung. Ones You have base module You can customize phone how You like. Can wait to see It.
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- MOBILEMAN
- PwP
- 16 Apr 2014
it`s so stupid think you will must have a module for de microusb conector!!!!! so many modules..thats insane.
cpu
gpu
camera
ram
internal memory??.its more easy to add 2 microsd slots
sensors
display....-
anyone need more??
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- ganjaboy03
- vxt
- 16 Apr 2014
now thats what we call "GAME CHANGER",,, im really excited for this thing
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- palesakipu
- 73V
- 16 Apr 2014
google is realising the concept of smartphone
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- Anonymous
- spe
- 16 Apr 2014
Now that's innovation. Companies like Samsung or Apple barely does something for this industry. Without Google, we would be waaaaay back texhnology-wise. Thanks to Google!
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- kingpin
- vbK
- 16 Apr 2014
It is the real demand of time. I cant afford changing phone every three month.
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- AnonD-1846
- Nr8
- 16 Apr 2014
The real King is Google.