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Google’s Project Ara Has Been Shelved, Will be Salvaged for Parts

1 September, 20161 September, 2016e-Reading Hardware, GoogleLeave a comment

Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push...

Project Ara is Alive, Igor!

20 May, 20161 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware, Google2 Comments

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...

Project Ara Delayed Until 2016 – This Does Not Look Good For Competing Projects

18 August, 20151 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware5 Comments

The hints dropped last week by the Project Ara developers have sadly come to pass. BBC, The Next Web, and the rest of the tech blogosphere is...

Google Postpones Project Ara Pilot

13 August, 20151 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware, GoogleLeave a comment

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...

Fonkraft Challenges Project Ara With a $99 Modular Smartphone

28 April, 20151 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware9 Comments

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...

Intersoft’s Do-Ra Module Turns a Project Ara Smartphone into a Geiger Counter

20 March, 201512 May, 2017e-Reading HardwareOne Comment

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...

PuzzlePhone Modular Smartphone Gains Spanish Modular Tech

7 March, 20151 July, 2016e-Reading HardwareOne Comment

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...

Yezz Shows Off SmartCover, LED Flashlight, Gamepad for Project Ara

2 March, 20151 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware4 Comments

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...

Under the Hood of Project Ara (videos)

22 February, 20151 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware2 Comments

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...

Toshiba Reveals 5MP Camera Module for Project Ara

16 February, 20151 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware3 Comments

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...

Project Ara Smartphone to Get Premium Modules for 13MP Toshiba Camera, Sennheiser Audio, Innolux Displays

26 January, 20151 July, 2016e-Reading HardwareOne Comment

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...

Nvidia, Marvell to Develop CPU Modules for Google’s Modular eReading Device

19 December, 20141 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware, GoogleLeave a comment

Google’s Project Ara is still on schedule to ship its first units in 2015, and today we learned that the modular mobile device is going to have...

Want to Assemble Your Own Smartphone? Google Shows Off Project Ara Modular Phone Prototype

29 October, 20141 July, 2016e-Reading Hardware, Google7 Comments

The idea of assembling a DIY mobile device has long since fallen out of the mainstream, but if Project Ara is successful then that could change. For the...