At the Project Ara Developer Conference held at the headquarters of the California Shanjingcheng Headquarters, Google officially released the world's first modular mobile phone Spiral 2, and will be in the second half of the year, the modular mobile phone for a long time has finally become a reality.
Google Abandon Motorola left the future
Project ARA is a project published by Motorola in October 2013. Through the project, users can freely customize the external mobile phones. More importantly, Project Ara is designed to establish a new ecosystem, and Motorola hopes that users can upgrade the processors, screens, batteries, and lens, etc. of the mobile phone as convenient to the computer.
This design concept is very avant-garde. Unfortunately, Motorola has not waited until the product was introduced, he was sold by Google to Lenovo, leaving only a Motorola mass patent and Project Ara project. Motorola's rich patented dowry, let Google can face Microsoft and Apple, not afraerating in recent years; Project Ara acts as a groundbreaking project, there is a potential to guide future mobile phone design.
Project ARA core is DIY spirit
Take a look at the first product Spiral 2, which is the first release of the project. Its front is a 720P display module and transceiver module. The back is the processor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G, camera, USB, headphones, speakers, and battery modules. . Insert them into the mobile phone body skeleton, and Spiral 2 can work properly through the permanent magnet.
It can be seen that the core advantage of Project ARA is that the DIY spirit, the Great Project Ara project partner will provide users with a variety of modules, and the user needs to be done, and the module that does not like, plus the modules that you like. . You like to take pictures of more performance, he pursues performance transcendment, these are not a problem for modular mobile phones.
Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny
Project ARA modular mobile phone DIY features can be used to make the personality customization of the phone to the ultimate, only the "Select Module" - "Assembly" - "boot", you can have your own mobile phone, with the power-on state Replace this black technology. In the future, we may see such a scene, "Hey, my 864 core overclocking CPU fell, first borrowed your game", or "begging the storage module (A) (V)". Project ARA can make your phone's use more as you want.
However, Project Ara's road is still very long, the most significant problem at this stage is that the driver is still not perfect, the first product Spiral 2 will not be used normally; secondly, the exterior needs to improve the improvement, Spiral 2 is real Too thick, and the battery module is still prominent, and the appearance of the association is also more preferred to have more integrated and thinner products in the market.
In addition, only by Google cannot push the Project Ara modular mobile phone to success, but also need more vendors to join the joint, the problem is that Google can't prove that Project Ara modular mobile phone allows them to harvest more. Even if the modular mobile phone can be successful, will not be due to the module standards launched by different manufacturers, causing problems with mobile compatibility, affecting the user's use body, and thus only flowers? So Google also needs to make a complete set of module standards to unify and standardize the module market.
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At present, Project Ara modular mobile phones will not pick up the future of the future, but such design philosophy is worthy of affirmation. After the iPhone of Joe Golden, there has been no such subversive design for a long time. Everyone is pursuing high intensive, but the homogeneous phenomenon of smartphones is more serious. The high DIY characteristics of modular mobile phones are real. "play cell phone.
Although the difficulties encountered in the current technical limitations, the difficulty of modular mobile phones, the initial stage of development is more likely to be a small product, but who dares to say that the future is not project ARA? Just as you haven't known that Nokia Motorola will fall like today. Once the user is tired of current high-intensive mobile phones, low-key development Project Ara will usher in an opportunity.
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