We already anticipated it a few weeks ago: the modular mobile race has just begun. At the same time that the American company Google is progressing more and more in its Project Ara project, the smartphone with interchangeable parts, this time it is a new project baptized with the name of Puzzlephone which puts us on the track of another mobile modular intended to go to the market over the next year 2015.
From what is known so far, Puzzlephone is a smartphone that is divided into three completely interchangeable pieces. Unlike the Project Ara of Google, each piece of the Puzzlephone incorporates into its various internal components. In this way, the Puzzlephone can be separated into three pieces: a piece that incorporates the camera, and responds to the name of Brain ; a piece that incorporates the loudspeaker, the microphone and the screen, and goes by the name of Spine ; and a piece that incorporates the battery under the name Heart .
These three pieces ( Brain , Spine and Heart ) can be exchanged for other modules with better specifications, in such a way that the user can replace -for example- the main camera of their Puzzlephone with another camera with an improved sensor. The same would happen with the screen, which if it breaks could be replaced by another module in a very comfortable way (as if it were a piece of a LEGO) without the need to go through the technical service.
The creators of the Puzzlephone hope to launch the first units of their modular mobile phone on the market in mid-2015. And although the operating system installed as standard in this smartphone by parts will correspond to Android, the user could also have the possibility to install other operating systems such as Windows Phone or Firefox OS.
Of course, if the market for modular smartphones advances as expected, Puzzlephone has little or nothing to do against Project Ara. Google has already starred in some rumors in which there is talk of a version of Google Play aimed exclusively at selling parts for Project Ara mobiles. This store would allow users to buy parts for their mobile as if they were buying an application, which means that each part would have a tab with the opinions and ratings of users who have already been able to try it on their terminal.
Although at the moment there are no official details regarding the arrival of Project Ara to the market, in the first months of January of next year 2015 an event is expected to take place in which a new version of it will be officially unveiled. modular smartphone from Google. The event will take place on January 14.
