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Google's Modular Cellphone

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Open architecture (Score: 3, Insightful)

by jonh@pipedot.org on 2014-03-03 19:05 (#95)

If the aim of this is to do for phones what IBM did for the PC back in the eighties (i.e. provide a framework which anyone can build components against), then it's probably a good thing. Is there some catch which I'm missing though? It seems that everyone in the phone industry wants to keep everything as proprietary and locked-down as possible, and this seems to be moving in the other direction...

Re: Open architecture (Score: 2, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-03-04 10:50 (#99)

Sounds interesting to me - I'll be happy for anything other than the Hershey Bar form factor, and if modularity gets us more options, that's good. Sometimes I'm happy with my touch keyboard and sometimes I like the physical keyboard. Perhaps this approach would allow me both. Likewise, I'd be happy to go without a camera.

In fact, if I'm looking for a phone for my daughter, I'd be willing to pay extra for a phone without a camera. Let some other guy's daughter sext herself all over Web 2.0. Those things are a menace.

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2014-03-11 18:32 Insightful +1 kerrany@pipedot.org

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