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Too bad the camera isn't a replaceable part.
by goatlover 7y ago
Too bad the camera isn't a replaceable part.
- macintux 7y agoA lot of its capabilities is tied to the processing capabilities of other internal chips, so it's unclear what you'd gain.
- goatlover 7y agoTrue, but wasn't there a project for a phone based on upgradeable parts? I forgot who was doing that.
- macintux 7y agoGoogle’s Ara project perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
- dijit 7y agoEvery industrial engineer and electrical engineer I know said that it was a doomed project, and when I repeated their arguments to me (huge inefficiency in battery life, very heavy, poor performance) nobody wanted to listen. (And I was heavily downvoted). my friends ended up being right, those issues could never be worked out because it’s a fundamental problem. Integrated circuits are more efficient than others and having high performance data and power contacts is wasteful at best, and heavy at worst. It’s the same as building a computer on a breadboard vs having everything built in like a raspberry pi.