Good idea. Don't think the evil empires of Apple ect are ready to be felled just yet.
Who cares about polluting the planet for eternity when you can add another billion to your bank balance.
On a serious note though. It is about time people woke up to these con artists. Stuff should be built to last, but that ain't economically viable in this fecked up world, based on pure greed.
How long can this interface standard last assuming that it can even get going?
It ridiculously complicated to get to stuff to work correctly when the locations are not solidly put. Being able to move things around is practically insane. Then what happens when a new camera technology comes out - it will take **** loads more work and money to get it to be backward compatible and will actually just hold back the industry growth. Maybe it could last a year or even two but there's inventively going to be a point where they all have to be thrown away because they can't keep up with advancing technology.
I do agree about the lasting thing. Companies will design things to purposely last just longer than wouldn't be acceptable but then to break a couple of years later so you have to buy a new one.
I have a box downstairs full of all All my old phones all of them work perfect in perfect condition i can fit a sim card in I'll be at to use it daily.
some things are made not to last bUt it will last as long as you wanted to when someone breaks on one of my phones I fix it I don't throw it away it's the people nowadays not just the item
I like the idea but as already said it would be extremely difficult to put into practice. Especially being able to move the blocks around in different configurations. I definatley think that we'll see some sort of upgradeable phone in the future but I doubt it will last. Companies want money and you can charge more for a new phone every year than you could for a few block upgrades
Cause we throw them away as we think they are rubbish, when in reality it is just one small component that is out dated, to the uber tech nerd's anyway I am still on I phone 4 for over two years what a shock lol, surprised it works though and hasn't broke which it is probably pre programmed to do soon like my iPhone 3.
The amount of electrical junk that is produced is insane cause of it, toxic waste that used **** loads of energy to produce.
You must be joking. A well serviced iphone will do many years. Had my iphone 3G for many a year. Bashed and smashed. I actually spent £50 rebuilding. New housing. New buttons, sockets. Screen. Dock. Sold it for £60. Made a loss but i sold a pretty much brand new phone. Learn't alot too. The logic board was A1
Similar story with a 3GS I bought. It was trashed. Paid £100 for it. Spent £60 on rebuilding it. Looked mint condition once finished. Sold for about £150. Used it for a few months. Only whilst it was still smashed. So got plenty of use.
IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY. old tech can last for a long time. Rebuild the cheap parts. But the expensive logic board can remain. I have done many a phones. W995's to nexus 7's. my favourite is the iphone due to the mass cheapness of parts and availability.
i phone i most rebuild was the k750i w800i w810i all basicaly the same phone i used to use parts from one to the outher only slight differences i used to mod it so i could fit the w810i case onto the cheaper k750i and sell them to kids that think they are walkmen phones as i would download a Walkman them haha used to make about £75 a phone haha as i would buy broken ones for say £15 new case £5 then sell them for around 110.
allso did loads of work on blackberry the curve mainly used to get smashed ones basically from the bins pals would break them buy a new one and throw the old one away so they started giveing me then the best one i was given one spent £10 on a new screen new touch button and keyboard membrane looked brand spanking new i wanted it for bbm to talk to my girlfriend at the time was at college and some random kid said i will give you £80 right hear for the bbm i said fine no box no charger lmao
Cal - my dish washer broke so I took it apart (what a ****ing pain they clearly don't want you to with all the rivets and clip fixings that snap). Found the pump was broken. They wanted £300 for a new pump or £200 for a whole new dishwasher WTF pretty much a scam to make sure you have to always buy new.
Do you think you could fix an iPhone that hung up every time someone answered the phone or if it didn't do that cut out 3 mins into a conversation Lol and that surfed the net constantly lol? And yes I tried everything.
the truth is stuff is designed to break so they can make more money from average joe who ain't going to be stripping phones down.
Dont get me wrong I have fixed a couple of laptops when the fans have broke ect where most people would have thrown them away.
It's like my sony xperia, the internal speakers gone on it everything's all muffled now, have to use the loudspeaker to have a conversation lol. Got a new speaker for it so that should be interesting, seeing as my day job is fixing trucks using large lump hammers, not really know for my finesse lol! Saying that my HTC did quite well, only finally killed it off when I got pissed off and slightly bent it in half lol
MDK - That's only a concept (they always get watered down by the time of production) but it seems far more simple and a good idea. The original one was just crazy complex. With that sony one they are just making it easy for the average joe to replace broken components (and possibly small upgrades).
MDK - That's only a concept (they always get watered down by the time of production) but it seems far more simple and a good idea. The original one was just crazy complex. With that sony one they are just making it easy for the average joe to replace broken components (and possibly small upgrades).
true it is a concept but hell what a great concept and a steap in the right direction for phones .. the likes of appl have been ripping us off for years makeing the phone in a way that the common person will just buy a new one for more memmory or damage take the piss they stick 8-16-32 gb in them when in fact the could drop 100+gb in the same space from the start not to mention so simple to just add a card slot ..
the first one seems complex to the average person but for guys like me who have been building and fixing home computers for years it is mega simple and a very simple plug and play board type thing .
that said the sony one is much more practical and realy could have a chace of being in the shops
