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@DDCC35
March 3, 2026 at 6:31 pm
Unfortunately no real world mainstream use case… That’s why many other devices with the same approach failed in the past
@himynameisryan
March 3, 2026 at 7:29 pm
Battery packs are a good use case for these but that’s about it
Because on pixels and iPhones I see SOOOOOOOO many battery packs magnetically attached to the back these days, even with phones that last 12-14hours screen on time people are still going flat idk how that’s even possible
@Dekka915
March 3, 2026 at 6:33 pm
This has been tried by Motorola, it failed. Best of luck
@KTPurdy
March 3, 2026 at 6:36 pm
Moto andLG tried this. Forgot already?
@Supraboyes
March 3, 2026 at 6:56 pm
i was just about to say the same, i have a few moto zs with camera batteries and gamepad.
@K-LeeDaBos
March 3, 2026 at 7:38 pm
People forget when they have too much money
@neofx22
March 3, 2026 at 6:37 pm
Did they have not have this in micro four thirds format a few years ago
@MrRideslowrx
March 3, 2026 at 6:43 pm
It’s the phone of the FUTURE! yup, that things going nowhere. Interesting idea though!
@Supraboyes
March 3, 2026 at 6:58 pm
motorola already tried 10 years ago, moto z mods
@BrianHartman
March 3, 2026 at 6:47 pm
First of all, -10 points for using “thin” as a dimension.
But as to the phone itself, that looks kind of absurd. At 0:33, he has those batteries stacked up so that they would “last all day, and maybe all night”. My Pixel 9 Pro does that, and it’s about a fifth of the thickness (and yes, the word is thickness) of that phone plus those batteries. And the telephoto lens is clever engineering, I guess, but why would you carry that around with you? If you’re that serious about telephoto images, wouldn’t you already have a dedicated camera?
Phones have been trying to go modular like this for years, back to the LG (I want to say G5?) . Consumers don’t buy ideas like this, because they rely too heavily on the company producing the modules. Consumers get all kinds of promises of the fun things that can be added to the phone, but they never happen, or the company goes out of business and you can’t buy or repair the modules.
@juanpazmino8645
March 3, 2026 at 6:51 pm
Motorola already did it with the Moto Z from 2016.
@Supraboyes
March 3, 2026 at 6:57 pm
yep exactly
@Jitenderkhalsa
March 3, 2026 at 7:04 pm
Motorola did this with Moto z droid and gave us snap on Mods like projectors , speakers etc and also LG did this way back in 2016 with LG G5 giving us snap on camera etc
@PedroLopes-zyx
March 3, 2026 at 7:13 pm
Everything is great, except no ports
@James-In
March 3, 2026 at 7:15 pm
It’s got pogo pins on the back. Does that count.
@James-In
March 3, 2026 at 7:15 pm
They’ve beaten Apple to a portless phone.
@NANICU
March 3, 2026 at 7:22 pm
We’ll sell you 3 additional battery packs so your phone can last the whole day❤
@himynameisryan
March 3, 2026 at 7:25 pm
Twin that is just MagSafe with data connections
Or what LG and moto tried 10 years ago
@Rennie-Tp
March 3, 2026 at 7:32 pm
Moto andLG tried this. Forgot already?
@xelaander8429
March 3, 2026 at 7:52 pm
Be gone bot!!!
@handle-r2d2
March 3, 2026 at 7:32 pm
So a modern Moto Z??
@TheDilbertEffect
March 3, 2026 at 7:38 pm
This is an exciting future for mobile computing.
@AlejandroDeLaRosa05
March 3, 2026 at 7:43 pm
This looks incredible
@mohacherr
March 3, 2026 at 7:45 pm
Stupid technology
Look no type c
Me need type c and headphone jack
@lovescarguitar
March 3, 2026 at 7:58 pm
3 battery packs and “now you have a phone that can last all day” ?
I have a phone now that can last a day and the next morning😮😮😮
@lovescarguitar
March 3, 2026 at 7:59 pm
Proprietary technology, including for charging your device? That never goes over well
@floevs
March 3, 2026 at 8:19 pm
I don’t see a phone relying only on that but the idea of more “magsafe” like accessories may just be where the money is at: how about a slide keyboard accessory? or a bigger camera? or even a overall spatial sound recording microphone for when you film a concert or even just nature? that makes much more sense to me
@ocularsurfacewatermelon689
March 3, 2026 at 8:20 pm
We don’t need thinner phones. We need more capable phones. Rather than making it thinner, I’d like to run a 120b parameter language model locally on my smartphone all while keeping it thin instead of using a mac mini