A Finland-based company is developing the Puzzlephone, which allows users to swap components almost like Google's Project Ara, tech site The Verge reported.
Google's Project Ara allows one to customize a phone by choosing its components like camera and storage.
But in the case of the Puzzlephone, Finland's Circular Devices divides the handset into three parts:
- the Spine provides the LCD, speakers and basic structure
- the Heart contains the battery and secondary electronics
- the Brain has the processor and camera modules.
"Should devices like the Puzzlephone or Ara ever take off, users would be able to swap out an aging processor or battery without sacrificing a perfectly good display and set of speakers," The Verge said.
Circular Devices was founded in September 2014 - in the homeland of Nokia, which recently sold its smartphone business to Microsoft.
First puzzlephone to be Android-powered?
Circular Devices aims to release the first Puzzlephone in the second half of 2015 at a mid-range price - that is if it can secure the needed funding.
It will use a forked version of Google's Android but may branch out to other alternatives.
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