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 ...

In a report, project lead Paul Eremenko talks details about the tech giant's far-out initiative to make a free, open hardware platform for customizable smartphones. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for ...

The concept behind Project Ara is pretty simple: give consumers the ability to swap out parts of their phone. This allows for a greater level of personal customization, and may also reduce e-waste.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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’s Project Ara modular smartphone is coming to developers soon, but it’s lost a key part of its customization vision along the way. Developers will be able to get their hands on an early release ...

At I/O 2014, Google has publicly turned on its modular Project Ara smartphone for the first time. Considering Project Ara nothing more than some pretty concept art back in October 2013, it's ...

Google’s increasingly compelling Project Ara modular smartphone has a contender. Startup Vsenn, co-founded by a former program manager of the Nokia’s short-lived Android-based Nokia X initiative, aims ...

Project Ara got its first public unveiling in 2014 when Google detailed its initial vision for a modular smartphone. Ara wants to give you the power to choose the hardware in your phone, letting you ...

Yet Project Ara barreled straight down the same path without apparently learning from the past at all. From a pragmatic point, it bothers me to see the resources and enthusiasm being poured into a ...