Motorola Phoneblox Project Ara Faces Competition In ZTE’s New Eco-Mobius; ZTE Will Release A Similar DIY Smartphone

For smartphone enthusiasts: the new Phonebloks concept will be made real powered by Motorola. The new Google phone rumors might be possible with their "Project Ara."

The Phonebloks was conceptualized by Dave Hakkens who begged phone companies to create a phone wherein users will have the freedom to choose what features they want for their phones.

"Our goal is to drive a more thoughtful, expressive, and open relationship between users, developers, and their phones. To give you the power to decide what your phone does, how it looks, where and what it's made of, how much it costs, and how long you'll keep it," Motorola said on their website blog.

With a display screen at front, the backside has a number of hardware outlets wherein you can customize how your phone can perform.

For example you wanted extra battery life, you can put more batteries on your phone. Should you consider a faster phone or a camera, you can add and even replace the hardware installed.

Motorola said, "The design for Project Ara consists of what we call an endoskeleton (endo) and modules. The endo is the structural frame that holds all the modules in place. A module can be anything, from a new application processor to a new display or keyboard, an extra battery, a pulse oximeter--or something not yet thought of!"

The video put up by Hakkens has been posted online for over a year and after the video has gone viral in social networking sites. Motorola and Google took the initiative to turn this brilliant idea into reality by creating this project.

"We've been working on Project Ara for over a year. Recently, we met Dave Hakkens, the creator of Phonebloks. Turns out we share a common vision: to develop a phone platform that is modular, open, customizable, and made for the entire world," as reported from the blogsite.

Meanwhile, ZTE has conceptualized and created a similar design and concept of the Phonebloks in which they named it the Eco-Mobius.

"You can replace the components yourself; the idea is to reuse as many components as possible," said Waiman Lam, ZTE USA's senior. "We've modularized the device in four categories: display, core, battery, and memory. You can upgrade the CPU to a higher-performance CPU just by taking out the module and sliding it in."

See Phonebloks video here: