Tagged: Modular

Fonkraft Modular smartphone pulled from Indiegogo

Fonkraft Modular smartphone pulled from Indiegogo

Fonkraft was promising a modular crowd-funded Smartphone, few days ago. But the project was too good to be true in such amount they are trying to raise from indiegogo. Fonkraft was initially hoped to raise $50,000 from Indiegogo but unfortunately the campaign has been removed. A letter from Indiegogo is obtained by Fonkraft that the campaign was flagged by the site’s Trust and Safety Team as the project is fails to meet their standards. All the donations that had been collected was returned. It’s not clear what exactly happed, and Fonkraft is also ignoring the issue with crowd-funded site. A...

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Toshiba builds for Google’s Project Ara modular smartphones

Toshiba builds for Google Project Ara smartphones

Couple of months ago Google started a project named Project Ara, a modular smartphone development project. Although Google gets most of the credit of the project, Toshiba is also working behind the sense to turn this dream project of modular smartphones into reality. The main chips that makes the Project Ara possible is made by Toshiba. The Project Ara works with the help of two different chips, one is a switch chip that makes it possible to swap different modules of the phone and another is bridge chip that allows to connect different component modules to the rest of the...

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