Relative advantages of Phonebloks over traditional mobile phones

Relative Advantages of Phonebloks

In addition to the potential long-term environmental benefits, the phonebloks platform offers a wide range of relative advantages that are beneficial to both individual cell phone users and the mobile device industry as a whole

One of the immediate benefits that the individual mobile phone user would experience the vast amount of money that he or she has been saving by not having to purchase a new cell phone on a regular basis. This is because the core “blok” of the phone is designed to last and be reused with generation after generation of component bloks, which effectively contrasts the trend in the contemporary mobile phone industry of producing technologies to be temporary. The only replacements that the user would have to buy would be the updated versions of the feature bloks that strike the user as particularly appealing, and the user only has to spend money on the particular feature bloks that he or she wants, potentially eliminating hundreds of dollars in unnecessary expenditures.

Phonebloks also provides a unique opportunity for mobile phone manufacturers and wireless service providers by allowing them to create an entirely new and distinct branch of the mobile device market. Mobile phone manufacturers like LG or Samsung could potentially acquire the technological information necessary to reproduce the phonebloks concept and develop their own versions of core “bloks and feature bloks” , such as a verizon “core” or a LG camera blok.