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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I want a phone with a built in projector.. and a bigger battery.. and something else I haven't thought of yet.

I miss new features and innovation.

Since we have neither, give me modularization to let me have ^

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Phone makers: hmm this isn’t selling. Guess we’ll only make phones that look like and do the exact same things as every other phone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I hate that Google killed that project. Haken's block phone is still a great concept that is now used for Framework laptops. I hope thats someone can start doing that for mobiles. Fairphone is OK, but still far from Haken's idea.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That was the Motorola Moto Z series for ya, had pins on the back for modules to be attached. Some modules were a battery pack, jbl speaker, a projector, and even a little printer to have the phone work like a polaroid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had one of those (and still have Motos) and it was cool but a short-lived novelty. I had the speaker attachment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was just wiping my Force 2 the other day to install an unlocked OS and was impressed how much battery life that clip on pack gives it.

Without it the Force 2 was the slimmest phone on the market and with the pack on it just feels normal. Yet I can get like three days out of it, and I bought it in 2017.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also the LGG5 to a lesser extent. I had a chin module that acted as an extra battery and fine control for the camera.