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Facebook Is Creating A Mysterious ‘Modular’ Smartphone

The social media giant Facebook proposes a mobile whose components can be changed to “fight the rapid change and evolution of technology,” because the failure of Project Ara seems to have been not enough lesson for the social media giant Facebook.

Facebook Is Creating A Mysterious ‘Modular’ Smartphone

The social media giant Facebook seems to be has taken an interest in one of the tech giant Google’s best-known projects (and failures). Yes, the modular smartphones, of course, I am talking about the well-known project the “Project Ara”.

The company of Mark Zuckerberg, the social media giant Facebook proposes a mobile whose components can be changed to “fight the rapid change and evolution of technology,” because the failure of Project Ara seems to have been not enough lesson for the social media giant Facebook.

Facebook may be working on a smartphone that could be modular in nature. A patent, filed last year and awarded earlier this week, reveals a mysterious “modular electromechanical device” with interchangeable parts.

Facebook could be looking into creating a smartphone with interchangeable parts, according to a recent patent filing.

The project has been revealed in a new patent, reports from Business Insider. The idea is that the parts of the mobile can be changed as technology progresses, combating the current trend in which mobile phones change year after year with new processors, cameras and in general more powerful hardware.

The patent explains each module will have a different functions, and the modules include a speaker, a microphone, a display and a GPS. These interchangeable parts when combined could be used as a smartphone or a speaker. “The modular electromechanical device includes a chassis and a plurality of functional modules that can be connected to the chassis”, the patent said.

It is a modular electromagnetic device, according to the patent, and the social media giant Facebook who considers making both smartphones and smart speakers.It is a modular electromagnetic device, according to the patent, and the social media giant Facebook who considers making both smartphones and smart speakers.

A report from Business Insider reveals that the employees working on the modular smartphone were earlier working on Google’s Project Ara. The team now work at Facebook’s Building 8 group, which has an expertise to quickly prototype modular devices using 3D printing technique.

Currently, this new project is under the responsibility of Regina Dugan, the ex-director of DARPA and former director of the project division and advanced technologies of the tech giant Google, yes, the same person responsible for Project Ara as well.

In the year 2014, the tech giant Google introduced a prototype of a modular smartphone that caught the attention of everyone. The idea of being able to change the components of a mobile at will and independently seemed to be extremely attractive. Or so it was on paper since the project died two years later and became oblivious.

This isn’t the first time Facebook is working on new hardware. In 2011, the social networking giant worked with HTC to release two mid-end phones – HTC ChaCha (also known as HTC Status) and HTC Salsa.  The phones came with Facebook pre-loaded and had deep integrations with HTC’s Sense UI.  Two years later, Facebook along with HTC launched a phone called First. It was the first commercial phone to ship with Facebook Home, an app including a new homescreen for Android with automatic updates. There was no clear differentiation, which led to its poor performance in the market.

Drawings in the patent show a design similar to that of Google’s ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone project. The project was delayed beyond the deadline and was scrapped last year. Modular phones may appear to be different, but they are not successful commercially. Take the case of LG G5, which isn’t a terrible phone but failed to generate sales. So far, Lenovo-owned Motorola and Andy Rubin’s new hardware start-up Essential are trying to revive the idea of a modular phone.

It’s unknown if Facebook is really willing to make a modular smartphone in the future. Still Facebook sees the potential of a phone with interchangeable components that Google failed to execute it properly.

So, what does it means? Does it mean that the world does not want them? Simply share your views and thoughts about this new project which is initiated by the social network giant Facebook in the comment section below

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