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SolidEnergy is building a better battery for Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone

Last year, Google started providing developer kits for its Project Ara modular smartphone to third-party developers. Since then, developers have been scrambling to create technology to use with the device, including processor chips, display screens, and possibly even a compatible smart watch. In a recent interview with Forbes, SolidEnergy’s CEO, Dr. Qichao Hu said the […]

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Project Ara smartphone modules: Sennheiser audio, Innolux displays

Google hopes to launch a pilot program to sell modular smartphone kits based on Project Ara later this year. But a modular smartphone is only as good as the modules you can use to customize the device. Fortunately there are already third-party developers working on modules. The folks at Phonebloks are highlighting some of them, including […]

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Blocks modular smartwatch might support Project Ara smartphone modules

The folks at PhoneBloks have been envisioning a future where consumer devices are modular: want a new screen, a bigger battery, or a new camera for your smartphone? Just pop out your old module and slide in a new one. PhoneBloks served as part of the inspiration for Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone, and now the […]

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Project Ara video: Swapping screens, cameras, speakers on Google’s modular phones

Google’s Project Ara is an effort to create modular smartphones that let you pull out the processor, battery, camera, or just about any component and replace it with a new module. At the second Ara Developers Conference today Google announced that it would launch a pilot program in Puerto Rico later this year. But the […]

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Google to launch modular smartphone pilot in Puerto Rico this year (Project Ara)

Google hopes to begin selling the first Project Ara modular smartphones soon. But first, the company will hold a marketing pilot in Puerto Rico. That should launch before the end of 2015. The company is holding its second Ara developer conference today, where Google is talking to developers about creating modules for the phones. Google […]

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Google updates Project Ara modular smartphone MDK (module developers kit)

Google has released version 0.2 Alpha of the Project Ara MDK. This is the set of data and tools developers can use to create modules for Google’s upcoming modular smartphone. Later this year Google hopes to sell customers an endoskeleton for a Project Ara smartphone, allowing them to pick and choose modules for the processor, screen, […]

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Google Project Ara: Marvell, NVIDIA developing CPU modules

Google plans to launch its modular smartphone code-named Project Ara in 2015. Eventually what Google hopes to sell is just the skeleton of a phone designed to run Android software. Customers will be able to choose their own screen, processor, camera, and other hardware by picking modules. Early prototypes have been powered by Texas Instruments OMAP […]

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Vsenn is designing a modular smartphone (that’s not Project Ara)

Google isn’t the only company working on a modular smartphone project. Google’s Project Ara is an effort to create a platform that lets customers buy the skeleton of an Android phone and then add modules for the processor, storage, display, battery, camera, and other components. The first Project Ara devices could ship in 2015. But […]

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Google shows working prototype of Project Ara modular phone

Google’s Project Ara is an effort to create a modular smartphone. Google will sell you a skeleton and you’ll be able to select the screen, processor, storage, battery, and just about everything else. A group at the company’s ATAP special projects team has been developing Project Ara for over a year and hopes to bring the project […]

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Google’s modular Project Ara smartphones to support Rockchip processors

Google’s Project Ara is an effort to design a modular smartphone so that customers can buy just the skeleton of a phone and then attach the screen, battery, processor, and other components as they see fit. The earliest prototypes have been powered by Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 processors. Now the Project Ara team has announced that […]