Google Project ARA
Google Project ARA
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- fairbaken0
what a bummer.. they killed it for me.
Here comes the catch, and you better brace yourself for it: in a bid to become reality, Ara is shedding part of its modularity. Instead of breaking down the unit smartphone into smaller modules, the “smart” of the smartphone was being broken down into smaller modules. What this meant that Ara is no longer a fully-modular affair — you can’t change the phone.
The CPU, GPU, Memory, RAM, Display Size, Display Tech, Antennas, Sensors, Battery — you won’t be able to modify these parts of the phone. Instead, the added bits on top will be your playground.
http://www.xda-developers.com/pr…- ah, what worthless crap this will be:( I was really looking forward to attach a gpu, projector or some major hardware extension like in the heroic age of the pcsted
- The Verge guy popped the battery off, went on how you could hot swap themformed
- I think we'll have to wait and see. It's a prototype, but thinking you could swap a cpu or antenna is a little silly.formed
- why ? replacing the cpu-block after some years would have saved the other components. probably they found out, that in the end they would sell less phones..fairbaken