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 ...

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 ...

Project Ara got its first public unveiling in 2014 when Google detailed its initial vision for a modular smartphone. Ara wants to give you the power to choose the hardware in your phone, letting you ...

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 ...

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 Android changed how manufacturers thought about operating systems. Google allowed manufacturers to change, customize, and fork the open source OS to their liking -- adding or throwing out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ara Project will let you design your phone according to your budget and just the way you like it The face of the smartphone industry is set for a radical change as Google's Advanced Technology and ...