News - Google updates Project Ara with custom-made processor

[HEXUS]

Partners with Rockchip for Ara's new SoC, which can function without a bridge chip.

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[Cog]

In the good old days you dropped your phone and the battery cover fell off.

I'm not quite sure what would happen when you drop one of these but it would be pretty hilarious to see 10 different pieces all flying in different directions.

[Lucio]

Seeing the publicity shot makes me wonder whether each of these modular components offered will end up with a different exterior skin and unless you want your phone to resemble a piece of cubalist artwork, you'll end up having to stick to a single manufacturer anyway.

[ap0phis]

@Cog, if the pieces are held together by earth type magnets of something like that, I don't think they will remove that easy ...

but in another note, if you have allot of lego-type pieces + a case to make it look better ... i think the phone will become really thick and ... kind of ugly (like the first laptops were, somewhat like mobile desktops )

[Tabbykatze]

As long as I can get a nice reasonable cover for it to hold the components in and make it look pretty, i'll be happy. But I agree with the fact i'd rather my phone not looking like modern art...A blue canvas with a white stripe, I wish I could sell that for a few million...