I'm quite proud of the fact I predicted the smartphone a good half a decade before the likes of Apple 's iPhone became popular. Even before the likes of Microsoft 's Windows Mobile and Blackberry OS ...

What is more important to you in a mobile phone, looks or upgradability? If you picked the latter, then you’ll probably get excited about a new phone concept called Phonebloks. It’s a modular ...

We live in a throwaway society, where products often aren't made to last long, and generally aren't easily fixable. Smartphones are a case in point, with the average handset being replaced by its ...

Meet Phonebloks, a phone which lets you control the phone's hardware, allowing users to pick and choose the parts of the phone according to their lifestyle. The phone is made up of blocks which plug ...

Motorola has taken the wraps off Ara, a project to create a smartphone with easily interchangeable parts that could, if successful, revolutionize a device market dominated by Apple and Samsung. The ...

Imagine a smartphone that could last a lifetime. Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has, and he calls the concept Phonebloks. The modular smartphone allows users to customize and upgrade certain parts -- or ...

Anyway, since the duration of the battery is the highest priority, since the capacity of the built-in storage is not so much needed because everything is saved in the cloud, the CPU can be said that ...

Phonebloks is probably the most interesting concept we’ve ever seen, and it appears that Google agreed, since they had Motorola partner with them. And when they sold Motorola, they kept that part of ...

“Life is like a box of LEGOs.” You can almost hear that catchphrase echoing across the decades as the preamble to Motorola’s surprise Project Ara: a smartphone you cobble together from pieces like a ...

You know what's cool? Apart from a billion dollars? This "M-Blocks" robot project where cubes roll around and self-assemble themselves Terminator hunter/killer style. That's some cool modularity. That ...

Late last week, a handful of CBC colleagues and listeners sent me a link to Dave Hakkens's Phonebloks, a smartphone project that aims to address the growing problem of electronic waste. The pitch - as ...