Foldable devices 2026 and modular tech trend forecast reshaping future smartphones, blending flexible designs, upgradability, and mass-market adoption.

In an odd quirk of fate, a month after writing about upgradeable smartphones, an innovative fellow called Dave Hakkens has launched new modular smartphone concept called Phonebloks. The idea is that, ...

At I/O 2014, Google has publicly turned on its modular Project Ara smartphone for the first time. Considering Project Ara nothing more than some pretty concept art back in October 2013, it's ...

Building a smartphone with modular components that could be quickly swapped out for different parts sounds like a really cool idea, but Google is ready to admit no one actually wants one. The Alphabet ...

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 ...

Google will have a working prototype of its “Project Ara” modular smartphone concept ready “this month”, MIT Technology Review said. The publication said that more than 100 people at “a dozen ...

HMD’s next modular smartphone might be right around the corner. According to a leak shared by HMD Meme on X, the upcoming HMD Fusion 2 will bring notable upgrades to both its display and processor, ...

In the shadow of Google’s Project Ara, Finnish company Circular Devices is making progress on its own modular smartphone, the PuzzlePhone, and will soon reveal details. For anyone who thinks modular ...

The latest example of how a small startup can build disruptive hardware to challenge a goliath comes courtesy of the team behind Nexpaq, a modular smartphone case. The idea behind Nexpaq is to create ...

The FINANCIAL — LG Electronics (LG) on February 21 unveiled its highly anticipated LG G5 smartphone, a brand new design with not only a sleek, metal uni-body featuring a Slide-out Battery and a ...