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Phonebloks: A modular phone you update a piece at a time
- OldSchool 13y agoCool idea. Like a white box PC platform. Will it happen? Probably not. The iPhone took the world by storm by being a no-thought-required pretty machine, so this is almost the opposite. Would HN people love it? yes. As a related aside, in contrast to iDevices, the Galaxy S3 is the closest thing to a fully user-servicable phone I've found on the market. (hopefully the S4 is the same). Once you've unglued the glass one time, you can easily replace internals like both cameras, all buttons, glass, speaker, digitizer, etc, as well as the back cover and battery as designed. The parts are dirt cheap on eBay. I don't even use a case - there's no need since you're not hauling around a $700 glass-like block that you will inevitably break.
- fumar 13y agoDirect to Source: http://phonebloks.com/ http://phonebloks.com/
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoEarlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6372692 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6372692 Discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1m4m0f/this_is_currently_on_the_front_page_a_good/ http://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1m4m0f/this_is_... This is not a good idea.
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