Started three years ago, the project was overdue. The last day of its annual conference for developers, Friday, May 20, the US giant Google has announced the launch in 2017 of the mass market smartphone kit, which was introduced early 2015 under the code name “Ara Project “.
Still in prototype stage, Ara is a modular 5.3-inch phone with a customizable database structure. As with Lego, the user assembles with electromagnets modules of different colors and features: wide angle camera, sensor, speaker or even a box to store drugs
a potential life span of five years
Ultimately, Google wants to provide the opportunity for developers to offer new components, such as a crutch to hold the smartphone. Some start-up will test in autumn 2016, to begin to create applications.
“The goal is to Ara for mobile devices that have applications made for software “, the company said. The other issue is the sustainability of this customized phone, which would be 5 years.
Inherited Motorola redemption, this project has been integrated into advanced research center of Google. When the first prototype was unveiled in early March 2015, at the World mobile congress in Barcelona, Google hoped to create an industry around this new model, which would offer according to him easier access to the Internet to residents of countries emerging
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the sale price is not yet known, but the group had raised at the time a production cost starting at $ 50 for a model ‘entry level. He also promised a size test before the end of 2015 in Puerto Rico, but it had never materialized.
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