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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...