Phonebloks: A modular phone you update a piece at a time

Cool idea. Like a white box PC platform. Will it happen? Probably not. The iPhone took the world by storm by being a no-thought-required pretty machine, so this is almost the opposite. Would HN people love it? yes.

As a related aside, in contrast to iDevices, the Galaxy S3 is the closest thing to a fully user-servicable phone I've found on the market. (hopefully the S4 is the same). Once you've unglued the glass one time, you can easily replace internals like both cameras, all buttons, glass, speaker, digitizer, etc, as well as the back cover and battery as designed. The parts are dirt cheap on eBay. I don't even use a case - there's no need since you're not hauling around a $700 glass-like block that you will inevitably break.

Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6372692

Discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1m4m0f/this_is_...

This is not a good idea.

Direct to Source: http://phonebloks.com/