Working Project Ara Phone Hands On, Interview With New ATAP Ara Lead Rafa Camargo

[alex davies]

We interviewed Project Ara Technical and Engineering Lead Rafa Camargo and briefly went hands-on with a working phone.

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[nikolajj]

I'm still not sold on this. It will never be as compact or stylish as a unified product.
Maybe in 30 years...

 

[AdviserKulikov]

I'm still not sold on this. It will never be as compact or stylish as a unified product.
Maybe in 30 years...

It isn't designed to be compact or stylish, it's designed to give you the option of upgrading pieces of your phone in the same way you do a desktop PC. It also lets you chose what you want the phone to be good at. If you really need a quality camera you can add that module, but if not you can swap it for more battery capacity, storage, or some other piece to take up that space.

 

[InvalidError]

I'm still not sold on this. It will never be as compact or stylish as a unified product.

Not everyone is interested in having the latest, smallest, thinnest, most stylish and expensive phone on the market. Depending on how the parts get priced, I might be interested in being able to build my own phone instead of having to pick a prebuilt phone that comes closest to what I want.

 

[epaciga]

Error: "Like Google is doing with virtual reality and its Cardboard viewer, ***tit"

Second paragraph after "Hands On With The Working Project Ara (Spiral 2) Handset" heading

 

[RedJaron]

Not everyone is interested in having the latest, smallest, thinnest, most stylish and expensive phone on the market.

The Hell you say? 😉

 

[hannibal]

It is like comparing laptop and desktop computers. One is smaller and another... well is bigger...

 

[goodevil]

It is like komparin laptop and desktop computers. One is smaller and another... well is bigger...

The only difference desktop is more powerful or cheaper, but less mobile than laptop. Where this still serves as mobile phone - same size factor. So it should be cheaper for same spec pre-built one, which seems highly unlikely in the beginning.