Modular phone

Choosing a phone is all about compromise. Big screen & battery have obvious advantages, but not when it comes to fitting into a tight pair of jeans. But what if you could tailor your phone for different applications? Big battery & screen for watching movies on a long plane flight; smaller, for sightseeing at your destination? Or tight jeans verses cargo pants?

Modular phone concepts have been around for some time. Phonebloks was first. When Motorola showed interest, it looked like it just might make it to market.

Apparently a development of Motorola’s interest, is Google’s Project Ara:

http://www.projectara.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara

And most recently, Puzzlephone:



http://www.puzzlephone.com/

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