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 ...

Chinese smartphone maker Tecno is channeling Project Ara with its latest Modular Phone concept, previewed ahead of MWC 2026.

“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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...