In June 2016, Motorola released Moto Z series mobile phones. The selling point of the latter is that it can carry out rapid function expansion through the magnetic back cover module Moto Mods. The projection, music, photography, battery and other modules are also released together with the mobile phone. In terms of the number of expansion modules, Moto Z must be the most competent modular mobile phone at present.
Google's Project Ara, which was launched earlier, ended up with nothing. LG G5, except for the photo and music modules released with the mobile phone, has no news of other modules. Even on December 6, there was a rumor that LG G6 would no longer adopt modular design.
John Touvannas, director of Moto Mods, said in an interview with CNET, a foreign media, that Moto promised to launch at least 12 Moto Mods expansion modules every year, and would collect user ideas on the foreign crowdfunding website Indiegogo in January. The interview also mentioned a very important feature: these module interfaces can be applied to new motorcycle mobile phones in the future.
But even before we started collecting user ideas, many Moto Mods with distinctive features and big brain holes have appeared:
Car support module: the back is the car support, with built-in battery, which can be connected to the car music system;
On board module: the enhanced version of the former, which provides voice navigation and telephone transfer functions, connects to the on-board system through Bluetooth or AUX interface, and 15W fast charge, with a rumored price of 64.99 dollars (about 446 yuan);
Project Tango reality enhancement module: the former is the display enhancement mobile phone series (Phab) jointly released by Lenovo and Google. This module may be equipped with dual cameras and many sensors for sensing environmental information, which can digitally measure the real environment;
5G network expansion module: as its name implies, it is used to make these mobile phones that are not compatible with 5G network have the ability to use 5G network;
Electronic ink screen module: add an auxiliary ink screen at the back, which has the advantage of low power consumption and can be displayed for a long time, and is suitable for displaying text information such as time, notes, and even navigation;
Other modules mentioned in the interview include:
LED dot matrix module: purely used to display pixel expression
Game controller module
Measurement module (may be the reality enhancement module of Project Tango?)
Alarm clock module
Infrared remote control module
Storage expansion module
Alcohol test module
Ambient humidity and temperature detection module
Color sensor module for the blind
Compared with mobile phones specially designed for this purpose, or even independent smart hardware, to achieve the above functions, Moto Mods may be cheaper and more realistic in the form of "extended backpack", but we really have to admire the size of Moto's brain hole
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