http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oDAw7vW7H0c check out this video what do you guys think of this? i think its a pretty interesting concept but it would probably need to be improved just a little also phone companies might not be on board with the idea since more phones breaking means more people buying more phones . . .

EPIC.

Why do people say this is bad? I like it.

ImagineIt wrote:

EPIC.

Why do people say this is bad? I like it.

well now looking at the comments one here is

ComradeCommunism 1 minute ago
I've been in an electrical Tech class for 2 and 1/2 weeks and I already know exactly why this is ridiculous. Keeping the circuit completed on one of these things without crosswiring would be near impossible and then you have the safety and legal concerns that come with dumb people handling these phones. Morons drop their phones everywhere, what if some fool drops this in the tub and electrocutes himself? As this idea stands, absolutely impossible.

this person seems to know what they are talking about! except, i dont know anybody who uses their phone in the bathtub : - P

You would need to do a lot of very complicated progress with technology for it to be feasible but yes cool idea

honesty wrote:

You would need to do a lot of very complicated progress with technology for it to be feasible but yes cool idea

That's exactly what I was thinking while I read the comments. And why can I build my own computer if I can't build my own phone?

From what I can tell there's two things standing in the way of this happening:

1. Technology. We couldn't make this work properly right now electrically speaking.
   
2. Without international legislation I cannot see companies working together on this. Sacrificing their own stake in the market for something like this? I don't see that happening.
   

I figure the first one will be solved fairly soon. Probably something involving graphene and carbon nanotubes, I imagine. The second one needs to deal with an entrenched commercial model and human greed. Good luck solving that one.

Realistically I don't see this taking off without someone like Google backing it. That said, I love the concept and would wholeheartedly support it.

ImagineIt wrote:

honesty wrote:

You would need to do a lot of very complicated progress with technology for it to be feasible but yes cool idea

That's exactly what I was thinking while I read the comments. And why can I build my own computer if I can't build my own phone?

Miniaturisation. Computers fit together with a number of different slots that change as technology progresses. My first PC's processor slotted in, the second was a socket, later ones used different kinds of sockets with vastly different numbers of pins. Creating a base board that would work for everything is a little beyond what we can do on the level of a phone.

For now.


One more thing:

ilovesupermario wrote:

what if some fool drops this in the tub and electrocutes himself?

*laughs*

The very notion is daft. There's less power in a mobile phone battery than three AA batteries. We're talking less than 5V. The person wouldn't even feel it, let alone die from it. How'd that guy get to the second week of his course without knowing that? I was taught that sort of thing in basic physics when I was a child!

3DSfan12345 wrote:

That sounds cool. It's a shame my mom will never let me get a smartphone.

Paranoia?

3DSfan12345 wrote:

Nope. She says “if you can pay for it”. I'm still stuck with my old Samsung dumbphone. It's not a Galaxy. It doesn't even have a touchscreen.

I think you and I have very different definitions of “never” XD

My first smartphone was a Nokia N-Gage (classic, not QD). I think I paid £45 for it in about 2004. The only phone I've ever been given was my first one, a Siemens A50 (cheap even at the time) on my 16th birthday. It eventually suffered death by toilet (well, technically no, but in taking it apart to dry it I knackered the speaker somewhat) - never put your phone in a shirt pocket and then lean over to push the flush!

I thought you meant that your mother was opposed to the very idea of one and as such would not allow you to own one whilst still under her roof! (Perhaps that sounds insane but it wouldn't be the strangest thing I've ever heard…)