"Google is pushing back plans to release its deeply customizable Project Ara smartphone hardware until sometime in 2016. The Ara team today tweeted a message acknowledging the delay and shift away from plans to test out the modular phone project in Puerto Rico later this year. But Google was also quick to note that it's in the process of scouting "a few locations in the US" for Ara. Google's explanation for the change suggests that the team has been hard at work to make Ara a reality. "Lots of iterations... more than we thought," the company tweeted."
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 to streamline the company's hardware efforts, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
Google Project Ara is the next big thing in the mobile community, it’s border-less with unlimited possibilities. You know how people build PC for maximum usage? Google want you to build smartphones to your taste and specification. Never again will any mobile vendor limit you to what your smartphone can do, Google Project Ara will change all of that, at least, that’s what Google hopes its new idea can bring to the industry.
This can really shape the world in 2015.. How come Apple didn't think about this?
Apple has this militant need to lock down their hardware architecture to a stagnant degree. Small shop repair services suffer because of Apple. It's sickening.
What do you want to know about Project Ara? Does a modular smartphone actually work? Yes. Is it very different from Android phones? In a basic how-a-phone-all-works, yes indeed. Paul Eremenko, Technical Project Lead on Google's modular phone project just called in at Expand NY, and he brought along the latest working prototype. Modular phones do indeed work: you can take out a component without bricking the device, it can already run Angry Birds and we just got to play with one.
