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 ...

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 ...

As Google gets ready to ship the Lego-like Project Ara smartphone later this year, the company wants to ensure relevant hardware is available to coincide with the device’s release. This week, Google ...

Google's ambitious plan to bring modular smartphones to market, Project Ara, has been suspended. While there's still a chance that Google will breathe new life into Ara by licensing it to third ...

Google’s Project Ara has always captured my attention. It’s one of the most fascinating projects to be sent prematurely to ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 looks set to launch its long-awaited Project Ara phones for commercial release in 2017. The modular phones are designed to let you replace portions with interchangeable parts, such as different ...

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 ...

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 ...