DePRIVal | Pocketnow Weekly 173

Update: The weekend is here! Enjoy it with your favorite podcast available at distributors everywhere. If you’re tuning into our YouTube edition, a fair warning that almost half of the show is missing for some weird reason.The Android BlackBerry that’s got everyone talking; the newest and most affordable smartphone from OnePlus; the obscene forearm-cuff that only a mother could love. Plus, the strap-on that makes any watch a smartwatch and a Cortana clip-on that hints at something familiar. This ...

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PuzzlePhone brings more details to its modular smartphone to Indiegogo

Somewhere within Google’s intestines lies Project Ara, a development circle focused on bringing to bear the modular “switch-this-thing-for-a-better-one” smartphone. But we have no idea where that’s going. Meantime,

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Modular PuzzlePhone headed for Indiegogo next week, launch still a year away

You’ll be excused if you missed the original announcement of the PuzzlePhone concept in December 2014, as back then, everybody still hoped Google’s ambitious Project Ara would materialize by the end of this year.That’s unfortunately no longer the plan, which is why contenders like

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New Project Ara competitor aims for 2015 launch

It seems as if modular phones are the next big sector to explode in mobile. Just recently, we heard the moonshot idea proposed by Phonebloks, that perhaps instead of switching phones so often we could just swap out parts in our current phones. After all, certain things like the display, casing, and camera you might not want to upgrade from generation to generation, thus saving money and resources. In that vain, Project Ara came into existence, and after that a few startups decided to work on their own takes on it. Enter Puzzlephone, the latest of the Project Ara competitors to come into ...

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