Two very exciting Google ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects) projects are getting closer to launch. According to AndroidPolice founder Artem Russakovskii, Project Tango will launch by mid-November with the Project Ara modular smartphone to follow in February 2015. He adds that his source is reliable but that timelines can still “change any moment..” I’m told Project Tango should head to […]
Project Ara
Project Ara gets “trailblazer” Rockchip processor
Quietly but surely, Google’s ATAP team is making progress on its Project Ara modular phone. Timelines appear to have slipped some with a third design spiral prototype not expected until early 2015 at this point. But it’s not all bad news. In a Google+ update this week, Paul Eremenko, the Head of Project Ara, revealed that Project Ara is getting […]
Project Ara announces names of 100 beta testers to receive free devices
The first Project Ara modular smartphones are expected to launch in early 2015. Given that the idea of being able to modify and upgrade a smartphone on the fly is a new concept, Google launched the Project Ara Scout program back in late 2013. The idea was to ask people interested in the concept to complete “special missions” and provide […]
Toshiba to supply processors for Project Ara smartphones
Details continue to fall into place for the launch of the first Project Ara modular smartphones early next year. The first Project Ara Developer Conference took place in April and those interested in building modules for the project are now poring over the Project Ara MDK. We are now starting to hear more about those manufacturers. According to Nikkei, Toshiba […]
First Project Ara phone to go on sale in January 2015
Google’s first Project Ara developers conference kicked off yesterday. One of the first order of business was to confirm that Google was aiming to have its first modular smartphone on sale in January 2015 (with an official announcement at CES 2015 perhaps). As already reported, it will sell for about US$50 if Google decides to sell it at cost. At […]
Google announces Project Ara MDK version 0.10
Google will next week hold its first Project Ara Developer Conference. Just ahead of the event, the company has released the first release of the Project Ara MDK (Module Developers Kit). Currently at version 0.10, this is an early version but it will give developers an early look at how to build modules for the project. Google is also looking […]
Project Ara to keep it all together with electropermanent magnets
Less than two weeks before the first Project Ara Developer Conference, the Phone bloks team has released a new video that provides an introduction to various members of the Project Ara team and sheds more light on the modular smartphone itself. One area that the video focuses on answers a question that many have had since Project Ara was first introduced: […]
“Most active Ara Scouts” to get early taste of Project Ara
Project Ara was always a very interesting project and the fact that the first devices could be out as early as the first quarter of 2015 has only made it even more so. If early 2015 seems too far away, there is a way that you could get your hands an early release version before that. Interested? If your answer […]