Project Ara lets customers keep their old phone and upgrade its parts. Oct. 29, 2013— -- Back in June, Samsung announced it was releasing three new models of their Galaxy S4 phone. But those that ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Life is like a box of LEGOs.” You can almost hear that catchphrase echoing across the decades as the preamble to Motorola’s surprise Project Ara: a smartphone you cobble together from pieces like a ...

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 ...

Google has revealed it hopes to have a phone from its Project Ara initiative on the market by January 2015. It’s the first time the company has offered such a specific launch date, indicating that its ...

Google will have to find a new way to attach the modules for its ambitious Project Ara smartphone after the device failed a drop test. The admission, made via Twitter, comes a week after Google said ...

There is no shortage of genuinely good smartphone options on the market. However, if you want to stay completely up-to-date, you'll have to toss your old phone once a year in order to buy the new ...

Google Android changed how manufacturers thought about operating systems. Google allowed manufacturers to change, customize, and fork the open source OS to their liking -- adding or throwing out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...