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 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'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 ...

“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 ...

Project Ara got its first public unveiling in 2014 when Google detailed its initial vision for a modular smartphone. Ara wants to give you the power to choose the hardware in your phone, letting you ...

The spotlight will fall on Project Ara this week when Google holds a big event for developers, but it’s far from the first company to toy with modular smartphones. Among the first was Japan’s NTT ...

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 ...

Modular smartphone lets users customize features. Google displayed prototypes of their Spiral 2 modular phones at a developers conference in Mountain View, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2014. — -- Google ...