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Facebook working on a modular phone

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Yordan 21 July 2017

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Facebook is looking to develop a modular phone and - gossip we've heard before now got more solid backing. A patent application filled by the company revealed it is trying to build a device that can be used as a phone.

This is the second time we hear about such idea after Project Ara. That one was Google's attempt at a modular phone that went under before making any significant impact. Most of the team behind Ara went to Facebook, though and now they work at Facebook Building 8 - the lab that is responsible for the patent application.

Officially Facebook declined to comment, but according to sources, the Building 8 crew is heavily focused on developing cutting-edge camera and machine learning tech.

The device can be used as an Alexa speaker or a phone, but the patent also notes that “millions of devices” connected to a server could be loaded with different software based on components that are swapped out.

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  • vu7
  • 23 Jul 2017

Flogging a dead horse here. Phones are not really made to be modular since the modular compartmentation will eat up valuable volume/real estate space in the phone. Project Ara needs to die.

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  • Anonymous
  • tPG
  • 22 Jul 2017

USB thumbdrives are already sensitive to connection, what more can I say?

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  • Alien
  • ndn
  • 22 Jul 2017

No 1 reason for rooting my phone was to delete Facebook :)))))

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