• Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    Assuming it even works in a practical sense, the only way that’ll ever catch on is if they open the standard to third party manufacturers.

  • tgpe@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Didn’t Motorola do this a long time ago? I seem to remember them having various camera attachments back in ~2017

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.social
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      7 months ago

      I have one of their phones of that time and a few modules. It was pretty neat. Don’t remember what version of android it was but the Moto Z Play was giving me 2 days of active use even without using the battery pack. Then lenovo bought moto and the updates killed the battery life.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah that thing was very cool but unfortunately they did not have a ton of modules and it did not catch on. They were very smart to have pogo pins rather than the absolutely moronic “wireless” trash we have today. I can see something like this creating a whole new industry, if successful.

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    7 months ago

    I hope it goes well. The only reason to buy a new phone anymore is hardware features. At least for me.

    Otherwise all I need is the most affordable rectangle with the least terrible preloaded bloatware.