I don't know any 10BaseT ports that are "upgradeable" to 100BaseT or 1000BaseT.
Even if they were, somehow, upgradeable (e.g. via a firmware update), do you think that all the other systems connected to that network connection (CPU, memory, storage etc.) would be capable to taking advantage of the vast increase in bandwidth? Even if they were, would the battery technology of the time be capable of supplying a non-trivial amount of power? I suspect not. So, you end up replacing everything anyway. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013 3:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] OT: A completely modular phone On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that's Michael's point - eventually a new port or bus (e.g. USB v4 or > PCIe v10) will come along. It certainly may occur that at some point, one reaches the limit of one's future planning, and has to break compatibility. Again, look to Ethernet: We seem to be approaching the limits of what UTP can do. But we've gotten at least 3 decades out of it. If we got even 10 years out of a modular phone platform, that would be a huge improvement over what we have now. -- Ben
