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General discussion

Modular phones fade away (almost)

Apr 7, 2017 2:45PM PDT

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Modular comes with price
Apr 8, 2017 10:23PM PDT

Modular will come with price. It will be bigger, heavier, less reliable and more expencive because of design complexity.
Do you really need it? Are you going to upgrade it?

For example. Probably you have laptop. If you really need, you can upgrade many components there much less expensive then in modular phone. Did you do that? Do you need upgrade for your phone?

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Still interesting
Apr 19, 2017 1:44PM PDT

I think that modular phones are still very good idea.

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Thanks
May 9, 2017 5:20AM PDT
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Not for now
May 21, 2017 6:53PM PDT

It might be such a good idea, but not now at least for these couple years. Seeing Moto Z and LG G5 failure is a sign that the market need more time for being able to know how it should really work.