Motorola Wants to Make Your Phone Modular
Motorola Wants to Make Your Phone Modular Motorola has announced that it's new research and development team, called Project Ara, is developing an "open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones". In other words, it wants your phone to come in bits. The guys at Moto —who have been working with Phonebloks —claim that they "want to do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software." Ambitious. Clearly, Google's influence is showing. But, more seriously, the idea is to create a third-party developer ecosystem for hardware, which would presumably make it easier for people to chip in to the sector: producing a camera here, say, or a GPS module there. Companies could play to their strengths, deliver straight to consumers, but not have to make an entire phone. In turn, that could make for more versatile, personalized phones, with the user getting to decide what they need and don't; what their phone can and can't...