One BVG portfolio company we covered recently is Fairphone: a European smartphone startup that's created a modular phone design aimed at encouraging users to hold onto the same device for longer — thereby reducing the environmental impact associated with owning a smartphone.
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However, he says the real difficulty would be in making a modular phone robust enough to survive the "harsh environment" of the trouser pocket.
The prototype Google was showing off at I/O last week, now pledging a 2017 commercial release for a modular phone it's been working to bring to market since at least 2013, will apparently have six spaces on the back for swappable modules.
It turns out that it is a tiny modular phone that can be slipped into different device "jackets"—like an MP3 player, a GPS device, a bigger cell phone, car stereo, or a digital camera.
It's a neat system, but the benefits of having it tied to a modular phone are, at best, minimal.
I haven't seen the device or played with it myself, but the idea of a modular phone is intriguing.
The Clever group isn't the only one developing a modular phone.
