Look at Google's build-your-own-smartphone project

Ara Project has just skyrocketed in importance from Google Unloaded Motorola earlier this year, and we are now getting a fresh look at the work in progress . The Phonebloks team just released a video showing the progress of Google and its partners have made ​​in modular smart phones, and things are coming along as fast as expected .

While this is ostensibly a video to meet and greet some of the people who work for the cause, there are still some parts to look Tantalizing . It gives us a quick look at how the components such as processors and camera modules are held in place by means of electromagnets - slide into place easily , and are locked and unlocked with a quick burst of tension that will ultimately to be controlled with an application. For a few moments , we also get a look at the three different endo-skeletons those parts that come in side by side ... if only in the form of representation. The main means of communication is the models that have been getting all the attention lately, but the endo-phablet size looks to support 9 modules on the back and miniature models that could be sold for around $ 50 can handle at least 6 . Ara meat not enough for you? Fear not : the first Ara Developers Conference will be held on April 15 , so expect most secret project soon to be spilled .

Source: Engadget
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