In an odd quirk of fate, a month after writing about upgradeable smartphones, an innovative fellow called Dave Hakkens has launched new modular smartphone concept called Phonebloks. The idea is that, ...

Remember that technologically utopian future with modular, upgradeable smartphones that I envisioned back in August? It turns out that Motorola has had the same idea. Called Project Ara, Motorola's ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Motorola has announced that it is exploring the possibility of developing a modular smartphone. Project Ara consists of a series of separable phone components that users can splice together depending ...