One of the most anticipated gadgets
of American IT-giant Google has become modular smartphone. It can be attached
thereto, any additional parts - from the flash memory to the thermometer. Pilot
Project Ara option for the consumer market will finally see the light this
year. The first country where you can buy a new device, it was Puerto Rico.
The ambitious project Google Project
Ara will allow users to not only update your smartphone as new, more modern
devices, but also replace the parts in case of breakage - instead of buying a
new device.
The main base unit forms a so-called
frame, which can be set in any one motion module. The kit will include a very
wide range of additional elements - screen, camera, processor, memory devices,
watches, batteries, etc. Any item can be purchased separately.
Guide Google chose Puerto Rico as a
launching pad for Project Ara including because the population prefer different
types of smartphones and operating systems.
According to Gizmodo, promotional
campaign for Google intends to equip trucks for transportation and sale of food
in a kind of "demomobili." However, even an approximate release date
of the gadget is still unknown.
In the back, Google breathe some
companies implementing similar projects. Your smartphone designer premium brand
will soon introduce Vsenn, founded by former employees of Nokia.
Finnish start up Circular Devices
develops its Puzzlephone, which will consist of three modules. The first
includes a display, speakers, and the frame, the second - the additional
battery and the electronic components, the third - the processor and the
camera.
