Building a smartphone with modular components that could be quickly swapped out for different parts sounds like a really cool idea, but Google is ready to admit no one actually wants one. The Alphabet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone is coming to developers soon, but it’s lost a key part of its customization vision along the way. Developers will be able to get their hands on an early release ...

Google's modular smartphone, Project Ara, could arrive in early 2015 and cost just $50. For $50 you'd only get a bare-bones Project Ara endoskeleton, of course -- you don't even get a display, I think ...

Modular smartphone lets users customize features. Google displayed prototypes of their Spiral 2 modular phones at a developers conference in Mountain View, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2014. — -- Google ...