Project Ara: Smartphone modular postponed to 2016

Modular Google smartphone has been delayed to 2016, with the company that is looking for new American locations to launch the product.

Announced over a year ago, Project Ara is one of the most ambitious projects of Google in the mobile space. It is essentially a smartphone modular, the components of which can be replaced according to a particular need and at any time. The device, which waited in Puerto Rico in the second half of 2015, will not see the light until next year, and say it is the same development team.

The company is meanwhile seeking new locations in the US to back the launch of the first models of smartphones Ara, who still come in 2016. On Twitter, the company said that there were ” too many iterations ” of the product, or more revisions of the unexpected original project that stretched further development time.

However there was to be expected: Ara Project sets itself the task of re-imagining dramatically the entire category of product, because of its extreme miniaturization, it never paid to work as extreme personalization. On a modular smartphone, the user can change the camera, insert a module with extremely specific sensors, and also even replace the module with the processor and other electronics essential.

If the project goes through with the expected results, may launch the opportunity to update your device by changing a single module, and only when this is actually obsolete (a little as with the PC assembled). In addition, devices with extremely basic, standardized, could allow the production of smartphones at prices unimaginable today. All this would not be possible before 2016, and if they are not always announced new delays.