Is Phonebloks a reality ?

Phonebloks, which started as an idea in YouTube is now reality. Dave Hakkens who posted this video in YouTube explains how we can build a phone through bolks and their by reduce the largest growing waste - e waste. 

He wanted to grab millions of people's attention and wanted to take this idea a step ahead. He achieved it through social media and managed to win the attention of Motorola. Motorola started to do the R&D on this and soon it got merged with Google.

They named it as "Project Ara".  It all started as an idea back in 2013 and now it's an active project in Google labs.

The idea was simple. All individual components of a smart phone should be manufactured as blocks and it should be assembled over a base. This leads to the advantage of replacing any component on repair or damage instead of throwing the entire device. 

This leads to additional advantage of choosing different manufactures for different components.

Idea is neat and clean and it's currently under development in one of the most significant labs in the world.

A much needed idea backed by Google, this can't get better. I am early waiting to see it in stores. 

I hope late 2015 or early 2016 people can see it in reality. There is a separate YouTube channel for Phonebloks and lot of video's explaining the concept and design. I have shared the official page of Phonebloks below.

https://phonebloks.com/en

What do you think the price range will be for such a device ? If you make any guess, leave it as a comment. Let's wait and watch how close your guess is once it's out for consumers

Reference:

Official Phonebloks Page
https://phonebloks.com/en

Phonebloks Explained video by MKBHD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IovZRv8toDM


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