Google Modular Phone Project

Google also announces a Puerto Rico market pilot with plans to kick it off sometime in 2015. Google has demonstrated a current prototype of its modular smartphone Project Ara and announced it will begin shipping developer editions later this year.

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Google modular phone project. A plan to launch in Puerto Rico was cancelled last year. Google officially revealed the Project Ara on October 29 2013 further adding that it was working with Phonebloks to develop a modular smartphone. Project Ara a smartphone you can customize may seem like a crazy idea but its not half as crazy as what it takes to build it.

Google has suspended work on Project Ara the initiative to build a phone with interchangeable modules for various components like cameras and batteries according to. Google announced that it would release Ara phones to developers by. Googles modular smartphone Project Ara is officially dead By Joel Hruska on September 6 2016 at 1130 am Over the past few years Google has been working on a.

By the middle of the year momentum for modular phones was buzzing. Googles one-time Modular Smartphone Project is refusing to die as a newly Granted Patent is keeping it on Life Support Project Ara was a modular smartphone project under development by. LG held a conference to help developers build more G5 modules.

It started out being developed within the. Googles ATAP group led by. Google Chooses Puerto Rico as a Testing Ground for Its Modular Phone Googles Betting That Custom Skins Will Make Its Modular Phone Sexy Over the last year or so the team also worked to.

Not as modular as Phonebloks but a step in the direction of less wasteful phone. When asked about the status of Ara a Google spokesperson told VentureBeat the phone would not be. Reuters reports that Google canceled the project as part of a broader push to streamline.

Ara which is named after one of the projects early instigators Ara Knaian is a modular smartphone initiative that was set up by Google in 2013. Nowadays the most noticeable modular phones are fairphone and shiftphone. Google took a serious attempt with Project Ara but killed a few years later because they wanted focus more on software projects.

Google has confirmed reports saying its modular Project Ara smartphone project has been suspended. A startup called Nexpaq launches a Kickstarter project for a modular smartphone. Project Ara Googles plan for a modular phone that you snap together like Legos looked like it was never going to see the light of day.

Googles ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone concept with interchangable components has been shelved.

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