Google details its ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone

April 15, 2014

For a potentially revolutionary smartphone, it wasn’t the best start.“We did crack the screen, and the phone doesn’t quite boot,” said Paul Eremenko, head of Google’s Project Ara, as he presented an engineering prototype of the first Project Ara phone during a webcast developer event in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday.Ara is an ambitious idea: a basic exoskeleton into which standard-sized modules can be connected to produce a completely personalized smartphone. Alongside the basics such as a processor, screen and battery, users will be able to add the networking, multimedia and other modules they require.“We want to make the smartphone hardware ecosystem more like that of the software ecosystem that underpins Android,” said Eremenko.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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