Why?

+Nicholas Hernandez lol

😂😂😂😂

skin the modules that would look even better

Loll

LOL

lel

stole my module!

Lol!!!

For me, it's few moments later

You're careless

Nah, your memory just isn't what it used to be

Download some.

Love the joke, Christopher O'Grady :) I don't think they got it...

Hey Gold Badge, RAM stands for random access memory. Keyword: memory. RAM is often referred to as just memory. Therefore, what he said works.

Joseph Champeau 😂

nope 20$

thats what they told you huh?

+Jim Dragon lol

+Dylan Robertson not just that, producing a proprietary processing unit isn't cheap

Not true because then people would just but whole new phones because it would be cheaper than replacing modules

LMAO OMG IM DYING LOOOOOOOLLL ROFLL

shit my phone did that too😂😂😂😂

same

How does that happen...

+park yunhee I guess if you watch on a computer and your phone is on? then it hears it? I dot think ok Google works from the KZfaq app on your phone so I dot think they are watching on their phone

PREACH PREACH PREACH

The main thing that will run slow in a phone or computer is the harddrive (memory). Most of the time, there wouldn't even be a need to upgrade the CPU/RAM.

Anthony Martinez Too bad it didn't take off.

I don't think that will be a trend... Phones changes every year in design, usb port, etc... Basicaly you will have the same phone design and you will want to get rid of it

Devon Johnson I never had an iphone

*you're

It will, but at the same time it's extremely niche on the community unless it picks up big waves... Which... you're right! It'll take a lot to persuade someone to completely commit to a project phone.

And Project ARA is the Lost Coast.

Yes

and battery

+reiymi Just swap capitalism to socialism. So be smart and vote for Bernie.

I prefer performance & battery life over a good camera & loud speakers.

Exactly my thoughts!!

How?

All cables are removable but the main power cord. Compare that to a basic generic PSU where all cables are fixed.

Corsair CX500M is semi-modular,corsair CX500 its normal,corsair RM650X is modular, etc etc

so true

this annoyed me to

wtf lol

W

lol

found the redditor

Got deep quick

how? how did you find that?

holy crap, is that an actual easter egg, or an awesome coincidence?

+AbuJafar Choudhury gotta be an easter egg, probability of that happening is insane.

Illuminati confirmed

oh yeh

Right in the heart. :(

sniff

that's because right now, they're business is to move everyone to the cloud. In my opinion, this is not the right time for modular phones, because the tech industry hasn't reach their lowest costs of production yet. Therefore, making it now will be more expensive than waiting for a year or so. Google is the perfect company to make this work because their money is not on building phones, but to get more people to use them

thats true

@MG Tamim I'm in April 2019 bro

@MG Tamim I can feel the pain bro, I was waiting for this too......I'm tech nerd😅,.... proudly saying.

It was canceled a while ago

March 2020

2020 bro

+NerdishAzn u wish u had a maingear?

I'm genuinely surprised to see your comment here 😅. I'm a subscriber of your channel btw, love your vids 👍🏻. Just watched this video from 4 yrs ago coz I saw a tech post that Oppo is planning to make a modular phone.

Very true :(

My brother in Christ! These companies would make you buy parts "starting at $29/mo" every month or so. Because hey, you really need that cute ass speaker, and that dope ass temperature sensor, and that touchless key for your smart home, and that ... And don't forget that some of those will come with subscriptions on TOP, lmao

+Marques Brownlee lol

Good, they know each other.

+Marques Brownlee Unception

+Marques Brownlee 😂😂😂😂

+IshaanSangha unctherception

+Marques Brownlee history.google.com/history/audio

could you do a samsung gear s2 review or a lg g5 review thx keep up the great work

Ha I watched unbix therapy Chanel

have you been unbox therapied?

+Hirmand Saleh I have but being honest mkbhd is the one with real video making skill. unbox therapy just pumps out videos with not much skill. it's just a shame mkbhd could upload sooner but I understand that isn't how mkbhd does things.

Ender Clash Too bad it didn't take off.

***** Well OK then. I will take that as official.

Your comment reminded me of Dr. Evil when talking to his son. It's quasi-modular. It's the Margargine of modular. The diet coke of modular - just one module, not modular enough.

pinsquid With projected global profits of . . . one . . . Million . . . DOLLARS!

+Marques Brownlee hey Marques would you like to help promote my Hawaiian design apparel it helps my animal charity foundation on the big island of Hawaii please email me maxwelladams15@gmail.com Maxwell

+Marques Brownlee what do you think about battery modules, since higher capacity will increase the module size.. will it have a bulge or something?

They'll figure it out. Someone will create some universal code. PC's are basically fully modular and they're all doing just fine

+derwoods81 They'll figure it out and have hundreds of problems after release regardless because this is VERY complicated.

@@derwoods81 no they won’t

I think the most effective way to deal with this is to keep a configuration file with the components and the SDK needs to have a master configuration and build automation tools which reads the configuration in the components and updates the software build and libraries automatically when a module is swiped without making any changes in the high level code.

yes because apple pioneers all the ideas that go mainstream... idiot

+Renato J Your serious?

But no one gonna follow apple, because apple remove headphone jack.

Nova Calisthenics lmao you were so wrong

Nova Calisthenics hahahahaha are you even sure??? 😀😂🤣😆

Then get an iPhone

Booooo

+Big Mo nag he'd rather have a good phone

but... why

+Big Mo why tho I mean i have an iphone but if youve got a phone that isnt outdated why get a new one

true , but the potential of losing out to competitors on the next big idea will also drive companies to invest in modular phones. it goes without saying that after selling the phones, many will try to make the parts unique ,so that only they can sell them , like apple .

They'll make tons of money because you will have to buy the parts from them

I bet they're already making huge profits, $700-$800 for a toy, might as well burn money in the fire and then shit on the ashes, more entertaining.

yeah I heard him say that in the video too

Yeah but it would just open up a market to sell different modulars and pieces, plus there could be new designs and gadgets to come up with.

I noticed that

I saw that too

I was going to say that

Beat me to it

INIT

pause

...

hahahahaha

Trust me, it's satisfying...

bars

maybe

nope

I think it will end up like google glass, dunno about google Class.

The main challenge for fully-modular smartphones, imho, is the component size. For comparison, desktop CPUs are modular, while nettops HDMI sticks are not. SoC, for example, requires MUCH less space than separating CPU, RAM and GPU.

maybe

The issue isn't that the phones are too compact and modular phones would take up too much space. The issue is: how do you convince these huge smartphone companies to cater to a relatively small consumer group and potentially lose money at the same time. Rather than soldering cpus and gpus to a motherboard, you'd be creating a motherboard with attachments nodes in place of where those specifics parts may or should be. It may initially take up more space but it shouldn't take up much more space that it's not do-able. But how do you justify modular phones to these huge companies? They'd surely be losing a LOT of money if these became widespread, more commonly bought than traditional smartphones. The reason we want modular phones is that they'd be more economical for us the consumer. Also, the decision to get rid of the audio jack wasn't just a size constraint. It was also a chance to create more profit. It creates more of a market for wireless headphones/earbuds which Apple could market to their consumers. It pushes previous iPhone users to upgrade to the latest iPhone because of the very obvious difference ("You have a headphone jack, you don't have the newest iPhone"). It allows them to put more tech into the iPhone allowing them to raise the price without lowering the cost-performance. There are so many reasons why Apple could justify removing the jack. But how do you justify modular phones to these companies?

Its not a simple matter of adding a socket. Pretty much the entire computer is in a single chip and the rest of the(supporting) circuitry is custom to it. You cannot simply lift it up and replace it with a newer one. The market is entirely different from the PC one where you get compatible motherbards/chipsets and cpus. There is no compatibility within the SoC that are used so you would need a lot of extra circuitry to make it work. I wont say its impossible but it sounds highly inpractical. The whole thing with these mobile devices is high integration, it doesnt really go well with modularity.

How?

You can choose to connect any of the modular cables if you want to,the M in the CX500M stands for modular

Not all Cables are Fixed, it had like 6-8 Ports u can plug and unplug as u need, thus, semi modular :)

I wish I could thumbs this up, but I'm on mah phone.... consider this a 👍

+Daniel Huerta click on the comment and it says like

Unless the base (the thing that connects everything) is modular.

Matthew Hennes It's been 2 years. Ara is dead. Yup.

There's no reason you have to change the screen. Swap everything off the back of it, boom, new phone.

How would that be better? People would be even more wasteful, they would be swapping all the time creating more waste in the end

Yo Mama I think individual part tech wast would be better than complete phone tech waste no?

Because repairability, sure the modules should be more repairable, but it's at least a step up.

+Armen 96 He made valid point... You imbecile.

+Armen 96 That does not change the fact that he made a valid point. In fact he *never* said that he was a weaboo. Yes, he enjoys anime. But that only indicates that he is not a dirty communist hippie. Which is a good thing.

Well not necessarily, while no they couldn't sell you an $800 phone anymore they could however still sell the individual modules for a little bit more, for example since most products have a 300%-400% markup from their actual cost you could sell the modules at a 400%-500% markup, let's say it costs $20 to make a good camera, so about $100 retail for a camera replacement, would that not be reasonable? Not only that, but some people might buy these modules as often as yearly compared to getting a new phone every 2-4 years, so if done right, there's the potential for both more profit and a steadier stream of it as well. I'd say the biggest reason is because it's a heck of a lot more expensive to make a modular phone than one little package and that's it.

call Donald Trump

+Drake OMG, Drake? Is that you?!

use the force luke

buy a new phone

+Daniel Bell 8 year old much?

Yes it helped Thanks 👍

xD

Mohmmad Talha ii

True.

It's simply meant to be cool. Nothing about a modular device would be practical, and with our current technology it wouldn't even be economical. I'll bet in the next two years when the first commercially available modular device comes out people would pin it against the 'non-modular' smartphone and it'll be a total disappointment.

Not to mention the design compromises that would have to be made would rule out 99% of people, because they like super thin and light devices.

The ergonomics of a modular phone would be weird. The thought behind phonebloks was that you'd simply put together a phone based on a blank canvas but then there's always going to be limitations. Sometimes parts won't play along well with some other parts and it all gets screwed up. Cool concept but that's all it really was

Exactly! It's a really bad idea.

Rip

That's what I was thinking too.

PCs are successful. However these aren't going to be successful if they don't allow replacing pretty much everything, including the CPU and all that.

Yeah that's the standard today, that's what companies like Apple and Samsung do. other companies will take the profit hit and make these phones, taking market share from the big two. If Samsung and Apple don't follow, they will do a Nokia

Pc's aren't comparable to modular phones since they are made up of parts sold by different manufacturers. Yes, there are companies selling pre-build Pc's which allow the user to upgrade parts, but those are sold for a massive premium to an entirely different target audience, which makes upgrading stupid. There's only one thing that will make or break this idea, and that is whether or not there is a market for such products. I'm fairly sure that (just like Marques says in the video) there isn't enough demand for a fully modular phone. Also companies make a shit ton more selling a completely new flagship phone every two years (which is the lifespan that smartphones are being designed for nowadays) than they will by selling separate modules which allow users to update their phones bit by bit. It's just not a viable business plan and it's not going to happen.

Not gonna happen

lol hes a tech expert not a hacker

+Atomix Craft how do you know he's not a hacker

Atomix Craft He looks a bit like him

Okts Chill lmao yeah

Atomix Craft :)

5/10

nexus

+GlimbaVFX™ Nexus what? The Nexus phones are made by ODMs such as Samsung, LG and Motorola. Google is doing Aira in-house so ODMs cannot help them.

he used the word made, and they do produce/make nexus today

he didnt use the word "create" though

well i was talking to Peichen

Entitled entitled entitled...

Re watch the video again.

lol

It's hardly even modular

+Big Mo Exactly.

Okay

yeah...In ur dreams pal

I will buddy and it may be 20 years after modular phones are mainstream BUT I WILL DO IT DAMMIT

stfu

Hope so in this generation