Phonebloks (original) (raw)

Phonebloks was an idea for a new kind of phone. A phone that you don’t have to throw away every few years because it is broken or getting slow. This modular phone can be upgraded, repaired and even customised to your needs. Phonebloks is a concept, a vision for a less wasteful future.

The idea of Phonebloks was to share it online, get people to support it, and inspire phone companies to work on it as they could see a market for it. When it released it got worldwide support and triggered companies to work on it.

Google took a serious attempt with Project Ara but killed a few years later because they wanted focus more on software projects. Nowadays the most noticeable modular phones are fairphone and shiftphone. Not as modular as Phonebloks but a step in the direction of less wasteful phone.