Motorola just did a Phonebloks!

Alas, Google Ara. It wasn’t your time. May you rest in peace. However, thanks for giving us Moto Z! Moto Z is creating a buzz in the tech world by making a very bold move and being a truly modular phone with third-party snap-on accessories. The phone comes pretty slim, so that the snapped on mods don’t make it too thick. The trade-off of this is the massive coin-stack camera bump , but it acts as a holder for the modular units too. The current roster of Moto-Mods include a snap-on battery pack, a crazy awesome optical-lens camera that will seriously raise the bar for smartphone photography, a JBL stereo speaker that makes this the first time anyone ever paid attention to mobile phone audio since probably the death of Sony Walkman… and a Motorola built portable projector, destroying the phablet market, because you can now have a screen as big as you want!

I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited to see something this groundbreaking since probably the Microsoft Hololens!

Designers: Motorola, JBL, Hasselblad & Incipio.

Sarang Sheth

Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.

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