ARA PHONE
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COMING 2017
Ara ara~
Ara ara my my
Looks awful
Like it did back in 2015... Why make an upgradable hardware phone, when you can make new phone every year and charge top dollar for it?
>>54655774
Because the only thing bad with my HTC One M7 is the now rather slow CPU and the shit camera.
~Ara ara, you wouldn't be attracted to an old phone like me
Tech always looks better in brown hands.
>>54656190
I laughed at this.
I'm off the deep end.
desu i really like this idea
Ara ara~ could you please give me a hand, anon-kun?
>>54655730
Give it back Tyrone
>>54655774
Gillette theory.
>>54656323
kek
Not sure how modular it will really be. Their site seemed to imply screen/SoC/battery will be integrated into the frame
>battery, CPU and GPU soldered on and can't be replaced
What a waste of time.
>>54655730
Is there a cock block?
>>54656322
stfu faggot
>>54655730
Fucking retarded puzzled like abortion, I would rather be able to have a thick as fuck phone and be able to replace the cpu, gpu, ram, etc.
>>54656507
>>54656921
Normal people don't give a shit about the SoC
And I bet on could add more battery modules. The built in battery is only there because hotswap
>>54655730
>battery not swappable
You had ONE JOB.
Project Ara has FAILED.
>>54657019
Plus, the amount of pins/compatibility of CPU and GPU on older boards. Apparently the base model of the phone is going to be cheap as fuck, so just upgrade that and add already bought modules to new model?
>>54657215
Basically the whole appeal
why did they have a nigger holding it
>>54657258
To market that it's simple enough for monkeys to use
>>54657258
Why does it trigger you so much?
>>54657269
well gee, its a little bit silly to have monkeys holding technology, if its being targeted for humans.
>>54657269
when did asking a question become being triggered
>>54657306
You're so funny XD
Can someone get an official source up in here? I still haven't seen a statement from google or anyone else.
>>54655730
No, it's not pronounced "ara", you nog. Say it with me: "arr".
>>54657269
Why doesn't it trigger you? Is your husband's wife making you tolerate it?
>>54656507
>soldered on
Yea soldered on the "motherboard"... You realize you can just get an upgraded board and still use your old components
>>54657365
Go to the website retard
>>5465>>54655961
Yeah so just make a new htc with a better camera or any phone for that matter.
Will be too expensive due to modular parts but jewgle will just make the base model really low spec
>>54655961
>go to take a picture
>pink
>get in a well lit area
>the pink turned to blue
>>54655743
>>54655741
>>54656322
Old and busted, we need loliphon NAO
>>54655730
>CPU not interchangeable
>ram not interchangeable
>battery not interchangeable
>screen not interchangeable
Its worse than the G5 already. I was so excited for it but the coolest thing about the Ara now is you might get to slap a tiny e-ink display on the back of your phone. I feel like that would just end up becoming a clock/weather widget placeholder though, not of great use.
>>54657436
>replace every major component
>$$$$$
>keep cheapo secondary components
You essentially are buying a new phone, save for the camera and maybe speaker/s. In fact the phone will run if you remove every single add-on. That's a bad sign for a diy flexible phone.
>>54655730
>that ugly patchwork aesthetic
I would shit on it, but it's really perfect for the hipsters its marketed at.
I hope at least some of its ideas get spread around to other manufacturers, it would be nice to see high-end phones go back to being expandable, modular devices like the Winmo PDAs of old.
>>54656477
What the actual fuck?
What good does it do me to swap in, say, a camera w/ twice the resolution if the battery is dead and the SoC doesn't have enough bandwidth to handle all them delicious pixels?
So they permanently affixed the only two parts of the phone that anyone would actually care to swap out. Real fuckin neato.
>>54655730
ARA ARA!
>>54655774
Because Google makes money from software, not hardware.
>>54655730
[citation needed]
>>54659077
Learn to white balance, gaf!
>>54655730
>poo hands
Already an Inidian broken Android gimmick garbage failed college project
If that's what I think it is, one of those modular "block/Lego" phones, there is absolutely no goddamn good reason to make every fucking aspect of the phone detachable. Did you really want a smartphone with twelve cameras, or four batteries and nothing else?
Why do you people want this stupid shit?
>>54656323
>Tyrone
>not Tyronuchandra
>>54660638
>Already an Inidian broken Android gimmick garbage failed college project
wow a lot of non sequitur adjectives at the end there streaming out like diarrhea
>>54660638
the freedom of choice is nice anon
if you're retarded enough to put 12 cameras in your phone, just why the fuck not? because it triggers you?
You need to get out of the box man. Be creative.
>>54655730
>those disgusting nails
shit
The big question is: Why I need a huge module telling me about the temp non-stop?
>>54660746
Pretty sure you'll be able to control what it displays, ya dingus.
>>54659809
>Not wanting to bury your face in a sexy, chubby milf's huge, milky tits
Disgusting pedophile. You should be publicly hung.
>>54660770
still, why?
If I need to see something, I'll have a look in the decent screen, not the monochromatic kindle-like piece of shit of module.
>>54660785
then you don't get that module, you put something else there.
THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT
Funny, there was a thread yesterday asking about this shit being dead.
It's like a google employee saw it and was all "OH FUCK WE FORGOT TO ACTUALLY RELEASE IT"
>>54660791
Anything that would make sense to put there already comes as part of other phones.
>>54660819
Nay.
>>54660819
of course it does. The key is to add what YOU want, not what some chink decided you should get. It's really sad to see the lack of creativity in kids these days.
>>54660791
THEN WHY THEY CREATED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>54660868
For people that aren't you?
>>54660846
>>54660858
It's another Raspberry Pi.
>I'll make it into a gameboy
Your phone already does that
>I'll make it into a media centre
Your phone/computer/TV already does that
I'm not interested in a phone with a swiss army knife glued to it. It's a small computer, and increasingly the browser is all I use it for
Why is noone considering putting guns and spider legs on this thing and turning your phoen into a death machine? Fuck the phone itself think of the hacking potential!!!
>>54660909
>I'm not interested in a phone with a swiss army knife glued to it. It's a small computer, and increasingly the browser is all I use it for
The phone isn't made for you, it's made for people who value the concept of the phone. If you don't value the concept of the phone, then the phone isn't made for you.
>>54660943
this gif is relevant to my interests
>>54660846
>horse_VR
>>54660811
From what they showed, maybe they should have.
>look your modular phone is now just a phone with modules
Now it's just the LG G5, but with more modules, beta, and with unknown specs for the CPU,screen, and battery which are no longer modular.
Absolute shit.
>>54660638
>Phone with nothing but four batteries
Hnnngggggg
>>54655730
Ara ara~ you wouldn't fall for the lagdroid meme would you
>>54660966
Are you a cute lesbian?
>>54661447
The only reason people fall for kurumi meme is because of her character design. The whole anime is garbage
>>54655730
They've been delaying this shit for too long, it may have been an interesting concept two years ago but now (assuming they don't delay it again) it will drop dead on arrival.
>no modular antennas, sensors
Okay,.. that's fine.
>no modular CPU, GPU
O-okay.., those w-would have b-been expensive to replace a-anyways... and who needs the best CPU.. just get a new frame, right..?
>no modular battery
I was planning on having 4 battery modules... but I guess I can live with one...
>no modular display
I mean.. I probably won't break the screen right?...
Project Ara is still relevant right guys? Right?
>>54655730
>Ara ara~
picked up
>>54661509
Maybe you should read some of the light novels and see how you like that, the anime wasn't the greatest but it certainly wasn't that bad. Kurumi claimed
Aw shit
>>54661582
This.
>parts no longer upgradable
Fuck. Google kill it.
Real subtle maneuver with that name choice, I don't appreciate the mental connections people will make to this phone.
>>54656477
>>54656507
>>54657127
>>54659817
>>54660324
>>54661071
>>54661565
One bit of good news: the battery is swappable.
http://www.theverge.com/google/2016/5/20/11723508/google-project-ara-modular-phone-photos-io-2016
>The battery on this prototype is hot swappable, too. Yup! Caramago opened up the bottom, pulled out the battery, and there was enough juice in the frame to just keep the phone running. It probably wouldn't last very long, but definitely long enough to put in a fresh battery, all without rebooting.
Still, fuck 'em for making the screen unswappable.
>>54662427
If you look at the size, it'll be like 1500mah max. kind of pointless, just like the G5's battery swap feature
>>54655730
poo
>>54662482
I wonder what the other modules are, and if they aren't necessary, could they be replaced with additional, smaller batteries? and what's to stop lightly larger batteries than that one from being made. other than trying to preserve the original form factor?
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Make it Stop!
I can't make it stop!
>>54655730
Ha. GAAAY.
>>54655730
Looks like shit, desu.
The nigger holding it isn't helping either.
>>54662427
That plastic looks cheap, I hope for them the final product will look less like a toy.
>>54657264
Underrated
ara ara, can you please give me toilet paper, anon-kun?
It will be interesting to see what types of modules will be developed for this device.
Fucking finally there's a phone with a hot swappable battery. For the life of me, I could never understand why some company didn't create a phone with a convenient hot swappale battery.
>>54665251
Why is her butt talking?
>>54667590
FLIR camera
Honestly I am not surprised this is the direction they took. The concept as neat as it was had no way of succeeding in a market where companies and part manufactures make profit on selling in bulk to phone manufactures. It would stand to LOSE profit if they went the route of ARA and made special modules which could be upgradable each year. The amount of production vs product sold would always be substantially lower.
Plus they would have been smoking crack if they were expecting in getting companies like Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Qualcomm to join in on making ARA modules.
ARA is a device that was always going to be met with compromise in the consumer market. It was never going to be the dream device so many people hoped it would become. Just a gimmicky pile of forgettable shit.
>put a case on it
Boom, it doesn't look like shit anymore
>>54655741
>>54655743
>>54671176
What is Snake wearing? Is it another Snake's outfit?
>>54655730
What happens if he isn't holding it together with two hands?
>>54671209
It falls to whatever surface is directly beneath it.
>drop phone
>explodes into a hundred pieces
>>54671252
Sounds the same as an iPhone.
can you upgrade the RAM or is that fixed like the CPU/GPU/screen?
This was more interesting when there was the potential to buy cheap chinese modules off gearbest, but if all the core pieces aren't swappable then i've completely lost interest
>>54672580
>NO
>EXPANDABLE
>MEMORY
>>54655730
The ultimate meme phone
>>54673058
And here I thought LG had the dankest memes
>>54672580
>>54673035
So you can't upgrade gpu, cpu, screen or ram... what the fuck is the point then you change simcards and cases on any phone.
fucking finally
Does anyone else remember when /g/ was nearly unanimous in thinking that modular phones were impossible in 2014/2015? One project for them got shit on so hard by this board.
Fucking idiots.
>inb4 Phone of Theseus
>>54673613
Assuming the frame is like $100 I'll consider picking it up. It'd be great to maybe get a physical keyboard or buttons for emulators.
>>54655961
The main reason I upgraded to the iPhone SE!
>>54674166
This is exactly why I usually do the polar opposite of what /g/ recommends.
>>54673613
Phonebloks was physically impossible the way they described it. It wasn't just /g/ that shat on it either
>>54655730
So... do the modules have to be multiple colors? I don't want my eyes to hurt everytime I grab my phone, and I don't want to look like a faggot each time I use it in public.
>>54662427
Thank god. The battery must not be soldered on. Selling a new product under the pretense that it's modular but making the only part that's modular on other phones part of the core would be the biggest "fuck you" to consumers.
>>54655730
im not buying one now bc i dont wanna get the one that nigger touched
>>54675158
I'm still amazed people took that video as a literal suggestion for how a modular phone could work, and even more amazed those people weren't promptly laughed off the internet. It was so damn obvious that the video merely promoted the idea of a modular phone.
must be popular with the weebs
>>54675728
>video merely promoted the idea of a modular phone
Really now?
> needs more aras
>>54655730
This will be a complete and total piece of shit, if they don't run away with the money completely.
Look at the guy's hands for fuck's sake.
it was interesting to find out "ara ara" is used the same way as the expression "arey arey" in Hindi
>>54672580
>>54673565
you can change the screen.
And they explained why it's much better to have the CPU+GPU on the main board.
Is this why Google got rid of Motorola for?
I'm disappoint
>>54669582
That's how Anon shitposts
>>54655730
fuck that looks so stupid
>>54676976
>you can change the screen.
Are you sure your info's up-to-date?
https://atap.google.com/ara/
>The Ara frame contains the CPU, GPU, antennas, sensors, battery and display, freeing up more room for hardware in each module. We are looking to module makers to create technology never before seen on smartphones.
>>54677071
not that guy, but at the bottom of that site it says you can develop display, connectivity, and gaming (gpu?) modules
>>54655961
>cpu is not changeable even in the ara dev kits
>some fucking how even the battery is fixed, just as with antennas and sensors
I was hyped years ago.
That got now crushed.
I guess I'll go with a 400€ lumia 950xl then with changeable battery (and sd slot), my m8 is dying already - crashing down when processing usage goes up, only boots with power supply plugged in and I'm just a few weeks out of warranty since this occurs.
>>54678871
When they mean display they mean second displays, such as the E-Ink module display pictured here.
>>54677071 Is correct unfortunately. The main screen is part of the frame now. ARA has less become the "perfect upgradable modular smartphone" and instead become more "the ultimate gimmicky modular phone of useless features".
Its like the fucking G5 but with more "magic ports". Its fucking useless.
>>54655730
It will never make It into production.
>>54660324
So you swap out the frame, it's still a modular component. You can keep all the modules.
>>54655730
If one of the modules is a slideout keyboard, I might be interested.
>>54679211
New frame will make you have to buy new modules because they will be incompatible. You are naive if you think the kikes will let you reuse old shit.
>>54679697
Don't be daft, Anon. They wouldn't go through the trouble if making an open standard and then not adhere to it themselves. Reusability is one Ara's main draws and Google knows it; flushing it down the drain would absolutely kill the platform. Makes zero business sense. Not to mention that with third party modules, which Google promotes, there would be little profit in people purchasing new ones anyway.
GOOGLES BIGGEST FAILURE
COMING 2017 AND NO ONE WILL CARE
you are fucking dense if you think this thing will be successful.
>screen not replaceable
>cpu not replaceable
>RAM not replaceable
Literally the key thing you want to be replaceable, are not..
>>54679654
A slider doesn't look possible, but a flip keyboard might be doable like this concept.
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>>54679211
The frame has all the expensive parts in it, though. They should've at least made the screen swappable. (That also would've enabled different front buttons/keyboards, or a keyboard under a slider screen.)
>>54680671
>They should've at least made the screen swappable.
I wish this was the case, too. Then it'd be basically the same as the previous version except with SoC embedded in the endoskeleton, which would still be really nice. I can see how this is more feasible, though, and it should within all reason be possible for third parties to make their own frames. Here's hoping Google doesn't go full retard, preventing others from doing so.
The dragonbox pyra uses regular screws to have replacable
battery
screen
case
keyboard
gaming controls
Moduleboard
Mainboard
L/R buttons
Storage
then there is replacement nubs and haptic feedback motor
>>54662482
You can probably put a lump on it.
