Google’s phone firm Motorola has declared a brand new project which will permit users to make their own standard smartphone. Project Ara can let users get a plastic phone structure, named endoskeleton, so add-on modules like a keyboard, battery or alternative sensors, giving them flexibility to customize the phone.
Motorola is functioning with the Dutch designer Dave Hakkens, who has created Phonebloks, a standard phone plan. during a web log post Motorola disclosed it had been engaged on the project for quite a year and added: “We need to try to to for hardware what the automaton platform has in deep trouble software system – produce a spirited, third-party developer system.”
“To provide you with the facility to choose what your phone will, however it's, wherever and what it’s product of, what proportion it prices and the way long you’ll keep it,” the post continued.
The endoskeleton or the frame of the phone will hold all the chosen modules in place.
“A module will be something from a brand new application processor to a brand new show or keyboard, an additional battery, a pulse measuring instrument – or one thing not nonetheless thought of,” the firm aforesaid.
A “Gimmick”
Although some are viewing Project Ara as a breakthrough, there also are those that feel it's all somewhat pointless.
Principal technology analyst at Davies white potato cluster, Chris inexperienced, feels the project is simply a “gimmick”.
“I don’t see this as being a giant deal. it's not responding to any specific demand and there's no real profit to aggregation your own device,” he said. “The days of DIY IT, individuals building their own desktop computer, are gone as a result of falling prices of hardware.”
Motorola’s next step is to ask developers to make the modules, which can be followed by a module developer’s kit.
