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 ...

As Google gets ready to ship the Lego-like Project Ara smartphone later this year, the company wants to ensure relevant hardware is available to coincide with the device’s release. This week, Google ...

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 ...

What’s the appeal behind perhaps the most popular children’s toy of all time? Almost any child in any country could tell you the answer: With Legos, you can make whatever you want. Structure meets ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google has been quite busy improving the hardware for its highly customizable Project Ara smartphones. The latest version of the Spiral 2 prototype features a 3G modem and an ...

Google announced today that it is organizing the first-ever Ara Developers Conference, aimed at helping developers better understand the inner workings of a smartphone and to build one themselves. The ...

Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group is finally ready to show off a new, fully working prototype of the Project Ara modular smartphone. The prototype appears to be a polished version ...

Google will have to find a new way to attach the modules for its ambitious Project Ara smartphone after the device failed a drop test. The admission, made via Twitter, comes a week after Google said ...

Google’s Project Ara is moving on at quite a pace, and according to Paul Eremenko, the man in charge of the project, the team is still on target for an early 2015 launch. What’s more, the first fully ...

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 ...

Yet Project Ara barreled straight down the same path without apparently learning from the past at all. From a pragmatic point, it bothers me to see the resources and enthusiasm being poured into a ...