Explaning Modular Smartphones.

Modular Smartphones:Explained

The simplest easiest to understand definition of modular is something we're all the parts can be removed or replaced so something's completely modular all the parts even the necessary ones can be removed or replaced if it's semi  modular than some of the parts can be removed and replaced and if it's not modular that all the parts are fixed.

Modular Tech:

The best kind of tech because when you can take out parts and replace them like a graphics card in a computer that also means that you can upgrade Parts at anytime just one piece  at a time , at your will which means you may have to wait until something is broken if you just decide you want a piece of something to be better than it is now you can buy the replacement upgraded and just make it happen ,recently  thinking  of ways to make things and tech that have a modular in the past, “modular” like smartphone we started getting really optimistic about modular smartphones like just the whole idea of being able to swap in and out at any time so let's say your phone you really like your phone but it's starting to get a little bit slow instead of buying a whole new smartphone to replace it you can just buy a new CPU module swap out that and your phone is  good as new or let's say you want to take better photos and some new better Optics are coming out you can swap out a camera module and you're good to go or let's say you're going on a road trip this summer swap out  a bigger battery module.

A video about this exact topic got about 20 million views or so in a week it was called phonebloks.

Phonebloks:

So this phone blocks was a crowdfunding campaign that look like it was going to be an actually brand new ,really awesome idea ,because it kind of was, I mean it was the first time people were actually considering doing a fully modular smartphone not just a removable battery or not just expandable storage but everything I mean look at screenshots from the actual video and it makes it look like you can replace anything the audio jack the gyroscope other sensors I mean I don't know what's in the speed module maybe my SOC but I can replace that to that seems awesome and then we heard nothing for a while like I mean we got the occasional update like oh!!! we're still trying or what we're still working on this but for the most part it just stayed in a concept form for a long time and I was kind of disappointed but then we got her hopes up again with Project Ara which is a sort of a resurface version of phone block have a lot of same looks from phonebloks the modules that slide into a base hot-swappable upgradeable parts and even a little bit of a better-looking design I would say but again this was more than a year ago and it's still all concept form we never got any phone to play with just dummies of what the phone would look like so a couple of weeks ago at Google I/O we got our project Ara update which is great we actually got some prototypes of working modular phones which is awesome to see but these were a far cry from the original concept as we kind of expected these are more like semi modular phones because now Project Ara doesn't let you say you know the CPU or GPU the ram that even the speakers and the screen are all fixed you will be able to swap things like the camera and the batteries and actually that uses a bit disappointed to those of us who were really waiting for that idea,but it's still exciting that we will see a project Ara developers device by the end of this year and then consumer device that we can buy starting next year of course this is all dependent on Google getting all these third-party manufacturers to actually make a whole bunch of different modules for us to choose from so there's an actual reason for us to try.

LG-G5:

We're still kind of high on this idea of modular smart phones and we have got some devices  like LG G5 it's a pretty good phone but its main selling point is that it's modular “kinda” because it has modules, this falls into the category of semi modular, in fact the truth is G5 is barely modular like I would hesitate to even use that word to describe it ,it has a couple of attachable accessories but we can't swap memory or anything you cant swap the cameras you cant swap any memory it's basically just the battery so it's like a rough draft and I love LG for trying but this is like 25% of a modular phone it could have been way more awesome if there were more third party accessories like Ara is planning to have and there also rumored plans for a Motorola modular Moto X with pins on the back and accessories that can attach later this year that will also depend on how many third-party manufacturers make these accessories.The thing though this generation is first generation of modular smart phones that were getting now is sort of like a rough draft of those crazy ideas we had a couple years ago there's no new tech to make these crazy new ideas happen since then so what we're doing is using old Tech and short of trying to more fit into a sort of a modular thing which is pretty crazy and bold and daring but 99% of people don't really care about a Lego like build your own modular smartphone type of thing and the last 1% who do, also wanted to be pretty cheap,also think about it! making the ideal future-proof fully modular smartphone for us now whatever company does that would kind of be screwing themselves over in the long run when they want to introduce a new phone let's say next year so no one's going to want to buy it ,cuz all will just want to buy a new modules for the Run instead.

That was the concept of Modular smartphones. I hope you guys liked it.