Puzzlephone: Smartphone makes simple modular hardware upgrades
Circular Devices is working on a concept of modular smartphone much simpler and ” possible ” the Google Project Ara. Puzzlephone is a modular smartphone currently in the planning stages by Circular Devices and Consists of three main parts.
An alternative to Project Ara, born Phonebloks program, in an attempt to produce a smartphone extremely versatile, to apply any type of module according to Functional the needs of a Given Time. Seems Puzzlephone Essentially a variant of consumer Ara.
Looking much more pleasant, the product of the Finnish Circular Devices consists of three main components: Spine contains the screen, the speakers and the parent structure of the device; Heart integrates the battery and some electronics and Brain will find the CPU, the logic board and cameras. Not as versatile as Ara, where you can install dedicated modules for various functions, Puzzlephone is designed to be easily upgradeable in technical.
The basic idea offer a platform with which to make it easy to update the hardware components once it becomes outdated or superseded by other technologies, without having to replace the entire device. For example, the basic structure consists of an LCD, speakers and microphones, it needs to be updated, for example, battery or cameras, areas that have experienced a much more rapid evolution in recent years.
Puzzlephone stands as the most viable alternative to Project Ara right in the field in which the latter has received much interest. Despite heavy investment received from Circular Devices, is difficult to predict the future of this particular modular device without a strong name like Google behind.
The preconditions for a great device aimed at certain niches of users are all there, but we must wait for the second half of 2015 before you get your hands on the finished product of the Finns.
The device is powered by a fork of Android specially designed to support the unique features of the terminal. The team at its base has promised to release an open standard for the production of various modules, so that producers can develop their own hardware parts for Puzzlephone.
