Project Ara, Google's modular smartphone, slated for release in 2017
The company has announced that their modular phone Project Ara would be available to developers later this fall.
Ara Knaian of Armenian origin is a chief mechanic engineer and co-founder of Project Ara, after whom it is named.
Project Ara is Google's vision for the future of smartphones. Once modular phones are released, users will be able to invest in a device that they want in the first place. Earlier, the modular phone allowed you to swap and lock-in nearly everything into the frame-as they call it- be it the display, processor, speaker, camera, RAM and more. The consumer version has received yet another delay, however, this time to 2017. Soli is a radar-based hand gesture tracker, which allows a person to control a wearable device through hand gestures without touching it. HARMAN is working with ATAP for developing speakers that come with a built in Soli radar. With an Ara phone, you could simply swap in a glucometer module and not worry about compromising performance of your device. The frame packs in all the functionality of a high-end smartphone and contains six flexible spots to swap in the modules.
A modular phone could, in theory, make it much cheaper for companies to create phone components and so introduce a degree of innovation not now possible.
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Last Wednesday at I/O, Google unveiled its response to the Amazon Echo wireless speaker, updates to its Android Wear OS and its Daydream VR platform, which includes the VR-optimized Android N smartphone OS due in the summer. You can put any hardware module in any slot as they are all generic.
But Google has pulled the surprise out of the box, and it's that modular phone concept is up and running at high volume.
Blaise Bertrand, the head of creative at Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group, says there'll be a "thin, light, beautiful" device available to consumers next year (via Engadget). But if that's a little too involved for you, you can use the "OK Google" command to eject a module.
The ATAP team now has a prototype for the modular smartphone.
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