It's still early days for Google's modular smartphone effort, but developers and enthusiasts are already thinking about the swappable components they may build.
It features swappable components, a customizable D-Pad area, interchangeable paddles and so much more.
The key phrase there is "to start," however, as this smartphone with swappable components could get a lot pricier, very quickly.
But deconstructing the complexity of a smartphone and refashioning it as a bunch of swappable components which can be slotted together in various custom combinations by the user is clearly no cake walk.
A modular printer that goes beyond simply swapping out printing heads still presents a lot of engineering challenges, especially when you're letting the community build its own swappable components, so we'll be watching closely to see how well they meet expectations.
Specifically, we have explored the possibility of self performance tuning at runtime through the use of hot-swappable components by incrementally develop optimised component variants easily.
Valve filed an application for a patent for a video game controller with "swappable control components" last year.
Plenty had tried and failed to deliver a device with swappable hardware components, but Lenovo/Motorola managed to pull it off — and sold "millions and millions" of phones in the process.
Constructing pipelines from Linux bash commands enables the use of hot swappable modular components as opposed to the more rigid program call wrapping by higher level languages, as implemented in comparable published pipelining systems.
But the best part is that most components and swappable, meaning that you can switch the joystick for a D-pad, or remove the bumpers.
Components are swappable, meaning that you can replace the joystick with the D-pad for example.
