Project Ara might be returning to Motorola supervision

20 August, 2015
The exciting modular project will be delayed yet again, but spirits are still high and the development continues, perhaps under Motorola.

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  • Anonymous
  • FUh
  • 21 Aug 2015

Motorola shut down their Silicon Valley office last week which makes me skeptical. It would be pretty silly to move the thing to Beijing.

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    • AnonD-432217
    • 430
    • 21 Aug 2015

    I'm not sure what this article is implying... Google and Motorola are two separate companies. ATAP became part of X when Google sold Motorola. Are they now entering into some sort of partnership for further development of Ara?

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      • .alpha
      • 9Aw
      • 21 Aug 2015

      Another failed Google product. What a surprise.

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        • Anonymous
        • 7A2
        • 21 Aug 2015

        Anonymous, 21 Aug 2015Google not ready to launch this phone. They said their phon... moreActually it was a joke on their twitter that the drop test failed. They just recently said that and that they're also going to remove the electromagnets in the design.

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          • Anonymous
          • tue
          • 21 Aug 2015

          Google not ready to launch this phone. They said their phone fail the drop test. All their module fallen off despite using electromagnet to attached each of the module.

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            • AnonD-222616
            • PUB
            • 21 Aug 2015

            lenovo=made in china, no thanks..

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              • Mark
              • YPb
              • 21 Aug 2015

              lenovo owns moto mobile now. so ara will be go to lenovo in fact.

              looking at the demo pics and early videos, i think r&d team went to a wrong direction. too radical design which dramaticlly increase the bulk and weight of the product.

              instead, they should still incorp the traditional design PCB with plugs and connectors, but make PCB, casing, plugs, connectors standard for better swappabilities.

              just similar to the idea of ATX, mATX, iATX... and mini, mid, full tower case. you get the idea. in fact, i've done simple designs and submit year ago when it started.

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                • ejrome
                • 2IB
                • 21 Aug 2015

                i thought ara already was under moto?
                still hopeful. still looking forward to this.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • tue
                  • 21 Aug 2015

                  AnonD-190634, 20 Aug 2015Good! Moto is good!! And those moduels are so ugly :S dog ... moreThose picture on the modules are customizable. They put those to cover the component which is actually a see-through plastic. Go watch the making of Project Ara smartphone.

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                    • AnonD-60230
                    • PWh
                    • 20 Aug 2015

                    So this actually is not related to Motorola as in directly

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                      • AnonD-190634
                      • HIk
                      • 20 Aug 2015

                      Good! Moto is good!!
                      And those moduels are so ugly :S dog and strawberries on a phone? :D

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