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I would actually buy this. I'd love to be able to swap components out, upgrade my camera from vanilla without it costing the earth, give myself two batteries, u

I would actually buy this. I'd love to be able to swap components out, upgrade my camera from vanilla without it costing the earth, give myself two batteries, upgrade with some more RAM or storage just because... Maybe it's because I have used an iPhone for years, and I've just been missing out on Android configurability, but being able to potentially hack together new hardware that I can just attach to my phone... dude... that is awesome. EDIT: yes, I read the previous thread about Phonebloks too. I was suitably deflated by all the "this is unrealistic" comments. I am now re-excited :)

special 13y ago
I'm not as interested in upgrades as I am in being able to replace failing components. It's just silly that a faulty graphics card can cripple a whole computer currently.
- coob 13y ago
  There is no such thing as a graphics card in a modern mobile device. It's all on the SoC, hence the name, 'System on a Chip'
- tehwalrus 13y ago
  true. I didn't want to use the "swap up to a newer battery when capacity drops" as an argument, because that's trivial on Android phones at the moment (and not too bad on iPhones either.) Graphics card example is better, but I'm not convinced Ara is going to allow processor upgrades this way? (assuming system-on-a-chip, including graphics.) I would suspect that the endo would have 8GB flash for Android, and the processor/RAM/GPU chip, and you can add on top of that (at least, the endos seem to come with a fixed screen size, even though two choices or size are pictured.)