Good fun: the camera module can be replaced by yourself

The patented technology developed by Samsung seems to make "changing lenses" more convenient. However, some analysts believe that Samsung's solution is convenient, but the increase in structure may make the phone thicker, and this design needs to occupy a larger space inside the fuselage.

Currently, mobile phone manufacturers do everything in order to make their mobile phones 1mm thinner. Therefore, the patent for interchangeable lenses should be difficult to come into reality unless it can solve the problem of thickening of mobile phones.

In addition, from the patent documents, we also saw a mobile phone equipped with a large-size photosensitive element, which is somewhat similar to the Galaxy K Zoom. The thickening of one end of the fuselage allows users to shoot like a card camera.

If you are looking forward to changing the camera yourself, before Samsung brings the product to you, you might as well look forward to Google’s Project Ara modular phone.

However, the road to Project Ara's modularization does not seem to be smooth. This year, Google created its parent company Alphabet and started a business reorganization. Therefore, the Project Ara module mobile phone project test was temporarily shelved.

A Google spokesperson also confirmed that the Project Ara module smartphone test was originally planned to be conducted in Puerto Rico, but it has been temporarily suspended. Google also emphasized that this does not mean that the project is closed, and it does not mean that the original test plan will eventually be abandoned. Whether the test plan will be started again in the future and where the test location will be selected is not yet known.

If Google’s Project Ara project is not stranded, and if Samsung’s interchangeable lens technology can get out of the laboratory, it may be able to accelerate the development of smart phones to free customization.