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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons – R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons
Project ARA (modular smartphone) is officially dead
Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts – sources
| SAN FRANCISCO
Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to streamline the company’s hardware efforts, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
The move marks an about-face for the tech company, which announced a host of partners for Project Ara at its developer conference in May and said it would ship a developer edition of the product this autumn.
The company’s aim was to create a phone that users could customize on the fly with an extra battery, camera, speakers or other components.