After years of waiting, Google’s long-delayed modular smartphone program will finally be shipping to developers this fall – only it won’t be quite the ambitious and bold design we had been...Continue reading
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Like a Smart Symbiote, Google Launches a 170 Million Euro Fund for Online News Innovation
The best symbiotes keep the host organism healthy. On a similar note, Google is taking steps today to make sure that the supply of content for its search engine doesn’t...Continue reading
XO Infinity Modular Laptop Goes Up for Pre-order
One Education is an Australian non-profit and OLPC partner that wants to take up where OLPC left off by developing a modular and affordable educational computer for students. Earlier this year One...Continue reading
Google Postpones Project Ara Pilot
Google has ruined my fall vacation plans. News is breaking today that Google’s modular smartphone might not be hitting the market this year as promised. The Project Ara pilot test, which...Continue reading
Fonkraft Challenges Project Ara With a $99 Modular Smartphone
Google may have recruited much of the mobile device industry to support Project Ara, but that hasn’t stopped independent efforts to develop modular smartphones. Late last year a Finnish phone maker announced...Continue reading
Intersoft’s Do-Ra Module Turns a Project Ara Smartphone into a Geiger Counter
We still don’t know for sure when Google’s Project Ara will make its way to store shelves, but when it does arrive it will have some nifty options. In addition...Continue reading
PuzzlePhone Modular Smartphone Gains Spanish Modular Tech
Google’s Project Ara is the best known modular smartphone effort, but those who want a simpler concept would do well to look up the PuzzlePhone. A Finnish company by the name of Circular...Continue reading
Click-ARM One Modular Tablet Up for Pre-Order for 289 Euros, Ships in June
A Spanish company by the name of ImasD is working to solve one of my complaints against Project Ara: the size. Earlier this week imasD unveiled the Click-ARM One, a modular tablet...Continue reading
This Israeli Startup Wants to Turn Your Smartphone’s Camera into a Tricorder
Google’s Project Ara offers the promise that you might be able to add just about any feature to your smartphone which a module maker can think up and if Unispectral’s camera tech lives...Continue reading
Yezz Shows Off SmartCover, LED Flashlight, Gamepad for Project Ara
Google launched its modular smartphone project in order to speed up device innovation and make it possible for new features to reach the market in a matter of months and not years....Continue reading
Under the Hood of Project Ara (videos)
Much has been written about Google’s Project Ara, but I don’t know that the media coverage has managed to convey just how complex of an undertaking it is, or just...Continue reading
OLPC Australia to Launch a Modular, Hybrid Laptop/Tablet Called the XO Infinity
One Education, OLPC’s partner non-profit in Australia, has been quietly working for the past year on a new educational laptop which it plans to launch in the next couple weeks...Continue reading
Toshiba Reveals 5MP Camera Module for Project Ara
Google is planning to ship its project Ara modular smartphones in Puerto Rico later this year, and now it looks like Toshiba is going to have a camera module ready...Continue reading
Project Ara Smartphone to Get Premium Modules for 13MP Toshiba Camera, Sennheiser Audio, Innolux Displays
I have my doubts that consumers will want to update and replace the CPU on a modular smartphone, but if the following screen and audio components are released then we’ll...Continue reading
A Finnish Phone Developer Wants to Turn Old Smartphone CPUs Into a Scalable Supercomputer
With modular mobile devices a hot topic right now, one developer has turned its attention to what to do with discarded parts after consumers upgrade their phones. There’s not much you...Continue reading