Are you also sick and tired of always having to buy a new phone when your old one breaks down? Are you sick of buying a new phone every year, because a better one keeps being brought on the market? Well, the people at Phonebloks thought they had a better idea. Phonebloks is a revolutionary idea for creating a phone.
The idea is that you take a starting point, which is almost always a piece of metal containing the cellular data chips. Once you buy that, you are free to design your own phone. You can simply buy new Bloks, and put them on your phone. For instance if you want a very fast phone, you first buy a good processor, and you simply click it on. Once you have a fast phone, you also want a good camera, because you like taking pictures on your phone. So you buy for instance a 10 megapixel camera, and stick it to your phone. This way everyone can design their phone they want it to be.
Besides this idea already being very well developed, it gets even better. The software will be an open software. This means that you can change the software the way you want it to be as well. This can be very useful because sometimes you are just limited by the options of IOS, Android or Windows mobile. But the designers of Phonebloks did not stop at creating an open software. They even made it possible for other designers to create their own Bloks. This means that if you want to put something on your phone that the Phonebloks company doesn’t have yet, you can go ahead and make it yourself. Let’s say you are really into music and you want a high quality speaker on your phone, but the ones that are available are all of very poor quality. You can create your own speaker and actually put it on your phone, as long as it’s able to fit into the starting point of your phone.
Personally I believe that this idea opens up a whole new world of possibilities and I also think that this is way cheaper than buying a new phone. Let’s say that your camera breaks down, or you want to buy a better camera. You can just replace the old one, and you don’t have to buy an entire phone, just for the camera. However, this project is still in the startup phase. Phonebloks originally started with a kickstarter video, and raised almost one million dollar. They are now working together with Google, so I have a lot of faith in the fact that there will be an end product.
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