Google’s Modular Smartphone to Debut in Puerto Rico

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my main thing is the ecosystem is so small who is making the modulus but .Google’s vision of cheap modular smartphones made up of interchangeable pieces is getting closer to reality. The company showed off the latest prototype on Wednesday, and said that it will start selling its first modular phone in Puerto Rico later this year.

Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group revealed the Spiral 2 on Wednesday during a crowded event for software developers at a Google office in Mountain View, California. It is a slim handset, its face dominated by a large display and a receiver module for phone calls that includes a light and proximity sensor on the front. On the back are eight different square and rectangular modules that snap into the phone’s slim metal skeleton to add different functions to the device.

The modules on the back include a camera, USB charger, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth radios, and the device’s main processor. The display and receiver module on the front can also be swapped out. All the modules are held in place by magnets in the device’s frame. 

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/534236/googles-modular-smartphone-to-debut-in-puerto-rico/

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Anyways, I see what you mean, the Puerto Rican market for this phone seems smaller than for example the US, but it is a lot more dense (I am dense as in smaller.. Don't know if the population is more dense...)

It would be easier for them to monitor the results of the prototype I think