Pocketnow had an article on Project Ara.
“Google said last week that Project Ara is only just getting started, with the first dev conference still over a month away, but we’re understandably excited about the sort of possibilities the project promises to offer. We have a long way to go before any of this starts approaching the phase were it might be ready for commercial deployment, but that hasn’t stopped Google (and Motorola before it) from sharing with us some images of its early design prototypes. At the Launch festival in San Francisco this week, Google’s Paul Eremenko took to the stage to talk a little about Ara and offer a demo of how the hardware might work.
We get to see how the Ara components populate the “endos” (endoskeletons) that will form the handsets’ backbones, as well as how the individual modules connect, using tiny magnets to stay in place. Eremenko makes a convenient comparison to the Play Store when describing how Google envisions the Ara ecosystem, where users can seek out just the components they need in order to give their phones the functionality they desire, much in the same way as how different users will install different sets of apps.”
I never thought this would accelerate forward as it currently has done, but to think you could select the components and build your own phone might just be the future. I’m still however trying to get me head around the fact that ordering a create your own pizza with 6 toppings might be just as simple as ordering your next smartphone!
What 6 toppings would you pick for your smartphone ?
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