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 ...

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 modular smartphone, Project Ara, could arrive in early 2015 and cost just $50. For $50 you'd only get a bare-bones Project Ara endoskeleton, of course -- you don't even get a display, I think ...

Google’s Project Ara boldly tried to bring the customization and interoperability of PC assembling to our smartphones. The idea of upgrading only the parts of your smartphone that were outdated felt ...

Google Android changed how manufacturers thought about operating systems. Google allowed manufacturers to change, customize, and fork the open source OS to their liking -- adding or throwing out ...

“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 ...

Google's new modular smartphones could show up next year and sell for a mere $50, according to a report. Google's Project Ara modular smartphones are slated for next year and could sell for only $50, ...

You don't have to wait for Google's Project Ara to get your hands on a modular smartphone, as German company Fonkraft has beaten the web giant to market. The Fonkraft handset is a crowd-sourced device ...

Motorola has unveiled Project Ara, a hardware platform that can be used for creating "highly modular smartphones". Designed to deliver handsets that keep up with the advance of technology, Project Ara ...

Google has released video footage offering a status update on the development of its Project Ara modular smartphone. The handsets consist of a series of separable phone components that users can ...

Google’s increasingly compelling Project Ara modular smartphone has a contender. Startup Vsenn, co-founded by a former program manager of the Nokia’s short-lived Android-based Nokia X initiative, aims ...