Advertisements As Google gears up to introduce the first Project Ara smartphone in Puerto Rico this year, the details of the first component modules for the smartphone have popped up online. The search giant and module makers reportedly showcased these modules at the Project Ara dev conference last month in Singapore and folks at Modular […]
Advertisements Google’s modular smartphone initiative Project Ara is finally ready for the market debut, however it will only be available in US territory Puerto Rico in the form a pilot project later this year. At the second Project Ara Developer Conference on Wednesday, project director Paul Eremenko revealed that Google is only comfortable releasing Ara […]
Advertisements Waiting for the Project Ara to become a reality, the team working on the project recently passed a critical stage by building the first functional prototype of the modular smartphone. They are now working on the second and much improved prototype but not before they made a video of the first prototype for the […]
Advertisements As anticipated earlier, Google’s modular smartphone initiative Project Ara is ready to be available to the mass market in early 2015, revealed Ara head Paul Eremenko at Linaro Connect USA 2014 recently. He noted that the first fully functional prototype of Project Ara will be showcased the second Ara developer conference in December. Paul […]
Advertisements Business daiily Nikkei is reporting that Toshiba has partnered with Google to provide chips for the Project Ara modular smartphones. According to the publication, the Japanese tech giant will be making three-types of processors for both modules and the phones itself. “Toshiba will prepare three types of processors for the phone, to be used […]
Advertisements Google revealed at the Project Ara Developer Conference on Tuesday that it plans to release the first modular smartphone in January 2015. The phone, which is just the endoskeleton (the chassis), will be sold for just $50 and the consumers will be able to customise it with the choice of modular parts. Project Ara […]
Advertisements Google has announced the release of Module Developers Kit (MDT) for its modular smartphone project. This kit will guide the developers and manufacturers in creating swappable modules for the Project Ara smartphones. “This is a very early version but our goals are to give the developer community an opportunity to provide feedback and input, […]
Advertisements Remember Project Ara, the open-source modular smartphone hardware platform, looks like, we might see the first commercial device from the project in Q1 of 2015. According to a report in Time, Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group ((ATAP), was earlier with Motorola) is just a few weeks away from a functioning prototype and is […]