On January 29, Google announced that it had agreed to sell Motorola, its phone-manufacturing business, to Chinese electronics giant Lenovo. Thus concluded the company’s brief, unprofitable foray into ...

Google's modular smartphone, Project Ara, could arrive in early 2015 and cost just $50. For $50 you'd only get a bare-bones Project Ara endoskeleton, of course -- you don't even get a display, I think ...

Modular smartphone lets users customize features. Google displayed prototypes of their Spiral 2 modular phones at a developers conference in Mountain View, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2014. — -- Google ...

A user on TikTok has acquired three prototypes of Google’s cancelled modular Project Ara phone. The user has shared multiple clips and images of the device and its modules. Google has worked on ...

Project Ara appears to be moving forward at a steady pace, with some of the first modular components for Google’s highly customizable smartphone expected to be shown off at Mobile World Congress in ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google has been quite busy improving the hardware for its highly customizable Project Ara smartphones. The latest version of the Spiral 2 prototype features a 3G modem and an ...

Google recently announced that it will start testing Project Ara -- its "modular smartphone" which lets users swap out hardware components like Lego blocks -- in a pilot program this year in Puerto ...

Yezz is a smartphone company you may not know, but it made quite an impact just prior to Mobile World Congress by announcing it would display a range of modules designed for use with Google’s Project ...

Over the past few years, Google has been working on a modular smartphone concept that would allow users to swap certain components and customize the device. Potential add-ons ran the gamut from ...

The spotlight will fall on Project Ara this week when Google holds a big event for developers, but it’s far from the first company to toy with modular smartphones. Among the first was Japan’s NTT ...

Google is sending out hardware for Project Ara, which will let you build a personalised phone from a selection of bolt-together elements. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the ...

The problem is that Ara was a pie-in-the-sky project, with support driven by 'I want this!', but divorced from real-world practicality. It was arrogantly confident that it could overcome the messy ...