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Screen and battery tech advances at a slower rate than silicon (CPU, GPU, RAM). By physically separating those aspects into different devices, users could upgr
by 6ren 15y ago
Screen and battery tech advances at a slower rate than silicon (CPU, GPU, RAM).
By physically separating those aspects into different devices, users could upgrade just the part that needs upgrading. i.e. this 21g device, and a "dumb" smartphone shell.
- forgotusername 15y agoI'm not sure we're at quite the level of modularity that would allow that yet. For example in a smart phone, RF design is a big issue (antennae efficiency / avoiding interference), which may preclude making the baseband component swappable (which is one component we still seem to be iterating). There's also the issue of designing a compact form factor that wouldn't result in huge space inefficiencies within the phone. Maybe in another 10 years