Jason - that part comes with the combo voice recorder and lost key finder. Saw it on HSN the other night.

tek_nic

how about an altimeter plus weather station for the perfect outdoors enthusiast device.

JasonCo

How about a laser projector module... would be great for mobile professionals.

JasonCo

what a cool idea! you add all the functions of a thin sony ericsson mobile phone, ad get a cool techno-brick which you can use for self-defence! geiles product!

Bodypainter

That's a good point Joseph -
However, I think this is playing to a different niche...

Sure, Paris isn't going to want one, but geeks and nerds would probably drool. I personally love the idea, and the looks dont really turn me off. Hell, my blackberry sports a custom duct tape skin, with velcro mounting patch, and business card pocket! (more duct tape)

tek_nic

Wrong. This competes with Lego Mindstorms, not RAZR2s.

Brian Lam

In this day an age, presentation is just as important as functionality. This thing looks ugly and will never gain traction until they figure out a way to make it look "cool." I mean the Motorola RAZR sold like crack cocaine, and it was no more functional than a Motorola v400 which was out for almost 2 years before the RAZR came out. Why? Cuz it was thin'.

Joseph

@Rothman,

Welcome to last week.

Joking, this is pretty cool. Now, build me a desktop with this! Post-haste!

Kaiser-Machead

It's a good concept, but not quiet ready for production. First of all its HUGE! And this is coming from a man who would willingly carry a TMobile Ameo if he could afford it. Secondly, there is so much wasted space on those modules. Why does a camera lense need 4 square inches of space? You could fit 4 smaller modules on that space, one of them being a camera.

Good concept though. I hope it goes somewhere.

Kevin1a

will it blend?

AndersonBMX

I don't understand fully either how this will catch on. I've mentioned this before, but virtualcogs.com does the exact same thing. VC seem to more target quickly developing proof of concepts and integration into "clean" end products rather than something people take and really want to use on a daily basis as-is. I think the former is the better/correct approach to open-source HW.

dkx

@Joseph: Yea, good example, coz the RAZR was actually a completly crappy underspeced phone.

I dont rly like this product, needs: bigger screen(s), and a better look.

tin

I was thinking more like the modules Handspring used for their handhelds long long ago.

strider_mt2k

Heathkit

frigg

@Brian Lam: I could see certain types of businesses being interested in this, but only the very 7334 haxxors would go near this as a personal phone... And probably not even them.

jawzxy

This is more about building hacks into this device. Like, being able to setup a geotagging car alarm that detects motion and uploads to flickr over EVDO when people get too close to your car.

Get it?

Brian Lam

clunky piece of junk. you will just spend a fortune on add-ons and you wil loose half the pieces. now you need a purse to carry this around???

doinka

This is way cool but they need to make it smaller. At this point only hardcore gadget people and computer people would love this. Most people wouldn't see its Genius and go get the iPhone instead.

Gadgetlover

bravo, this is a idea that has been a long time coming, a true open source device that can be converted into a pc, phone, gps, pda, video camera, etc.

Robert Isbell