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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In-house development delays are putting a stealth Microsoft-Verizon smartphone project in danger of collapse, Channelweb.com has learned. Microsoft and Verizon Wireless have reportedly been working on ...

Smartphones could become an integral part of blockchain networks, powering connectivity among smart devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry. Nodle is the firm behind a connectivity platform ...