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Is this going to be a long term effort (moto mods)

mconners

I got a z force droid the first day they were released in the us from verizon. I hadn't heard of them before, but I was in the market for a new phone, and when I went in the Verizon store, I liked the idea of a phone that would accept modular accessories.

 

I am a hobbyist, although my formal education is in electronics, I have been writing software exclusively for the last 15 years or so of my career.

 

I've been fooling around with arduinos and other dev boards for about 5 years now, and the pi since it was released, I've built some boards from scratch, soldering on the surface mount components, so I can build pretty much anything I want to.

 

My question is, what is the long term future of the moto mods project? I would love to purchase the hardware kit and invest some time writing code for it and the phone, but I don't want to do it if my effort will be wasted next time I upgrade my phone. Is this something that is expected to be supported in future generations of motorola products?

 

Anyone who has any insight, please chime in. I don't care if you are an official moto spokesperson, or someone who works for a company that is investing resources into moto mod development, or a hobbyist that was able to rationalize the effort because you see there is a burgeoning community.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Mike

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    Well, I am doing electronics since 1979, and the moto-mods is the best thing happened so far. So go for it, all you need is to get the MDK 115EUR, it includes one proto-mod that you can use for starters.

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    Well, from a millennial student point-of-view, this is an innovative form of modular mobile devices in which its limits have not completely been made know to the consumer user. As a student the amount of ideas possible for this is quite high; my generation is very intuitive with mobile devices, and by combining that intuition with modern program, the attachments designed and created by those students can definitely impact the way we use today's devices. In my opinion, I truly believe that this is just the start as this does raise the standard.

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    Motorola is committed to Moto Mods and guarantees compatibility for 2 more generations of devices.  That means the mechanical form factor of the back of the device, including the Connector and Camera, will not change.  Mods today will work tomorrow, Mods tomorrow will work on today's devices.

     

    We understand that it is a significant investment to develop for a new platform, especially when hardware is involved.  We want to help provide you the largest possible market for your Mods.

     

    Thanks for the interest, please let us know how we can help!

    -Christian...

  • 0 in reply to flowflow25

    Thanks, Christian. That was the answer I was looking for. I don't have a project in mind, yet, but I will probably go ahead and purchase the hardware kit (unless someone gives me one to road test :-)) and take it for a spin. Thanks to and for your input as well.

     

     

    Mike

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    Hello to all, I kind of found the answer to the discussion topic ... not fully satisfied as I participated to some Beta Tests for various producers of hardware and it's a very big effort to make something like this be attractive!

    I hope Motorola will keep this alive as the development is already done so only need to make some new phones compatible with this platform from time to time and the name "play" it's the best!

    I congratulate Motorola for this incredible idea and hope to help with some of my ideas in the coming future!

     

    See ya soon,

    Horia from Romania.